watch out for Brendan O connor...suddenly out there, from nowhere...not seen him before...now in your face like the rest of them...where and why has he been hiding....why come out now....why is he discussing immigration, when its Bowen's portfolio, as did emerson and conroy this week.... has Bowen gone past his use by date.......
***back to o'connor.....(please note how labor is blaming Abbott for not passing their bad laws, what happened to the 3 blind men, and partner in crime bob brown ???? is brown above reproach)
maybe he has designs on the top job... has all the required attributes of the top labor gang.... ie, he is really incompetent, and a liar.... (I dont call people a liar frivolously...I require proof, I hate liars, but when I find proof one has lied, then its all guns blazing, and I tend never to believe a word they say, ever again) read what lies he states here... ................................................. If Tony Abbott is responsible for any boats that arrive after he blocks the Malaysian ?solution?, who is responsible for the 12,000 boat people who?ve come since Labor weakened our border laws in 2008?
This, more than anything, is what makes the Home Affairs Minister?s press conference yesterday so ... well, you think of the word:
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
And indeed I also want to make one other point as Minister Responsible for the Australian Federal Police and Customs and Border Protection, those agencies, along with other agencies of government, have indicated to us that the Malaysian arrangement is the strongest possible deterrent to prevent people getting on un-seaworthy vessels on perilous journeys, and I believe Tony Abbott has a responsibility, not only to do the right thing for this country, but to listen to the men and women in uniform that put their lives in danger on our high seas, at cliff faces on Christmas Island, and indeed deal with very serious challenges in villages in Indonesia.... He is putting his personal interest ahead of the men and women in our uniforms, on our vessels, doing a very hard job to protect our borders, and that is a reckless and unconscionable act by the Leader of the Opposition to put his personal interests ahead of those that actually serve this country so well?
QUESTION:
You were pretty strong there in your criticism of Tony Abbott. How is this his fault when it?s your government that dismantled the system of offshore processing in the first place?
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
Tony Abbott is putting not only putting the Government?s arrangements at risk by not supporting the legislation, he is even putting his own option at risk by not supporting the legislation....
QUESTION:
You say that Mr Abbott should accept the advice of the department, the same one that gave the advice to John Howard. Why did your Government reject the advice and dismantle offshore processing?
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
Well, I don?t accept your premise that we did not the advice of the departments.
And yet more hypocrisy, to put it at its most polite:
QUESTION:
Mr O?Connor, in 2007 Kevin Rudd campaigned and said he?d turn boats around. This boat in the Indonesian search and rescue zone, was this an opportunity to make a statement?
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
We?re not? as I said, we have masters of vessels to make operational decisions. If people want to understand the history of turning boats around they might recall, and Prime Minister Howard conceded this, that the chances of turning around vessels to Indonesia was gone and it was gone from 2003....
QUESTION:
Minister, you just said that it was clear from 2003 that turning the boats around was no longer an option. Why did Kevin Rudd promise to do it in 2007?
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
I?m saying to you?
QUESTION:
I don?t understand, if you knew that why promise it to the people?
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
Well, you?re talking about what the now Minister for Foreign Affairs may have said in 2007.
QUESTION:
He did say it.
BRENDAN O?CONNOR:
Well, this is my view. My view is, I mean, you cannot, you cannot have any confidence in a policy where the Indonesians will not accept that proposition. Now, had Indonesia made those statements more clearly at the time, I can?t? I?m not sure on that.
