Former independent MP Tony Windsor has hit out at a bungled government operation that would have seen people stopped for passport checks on the streets of Melbourne, telling ABC radio he had no doubt that some in the Abbott government "hopes that something goes wrong domestically".
"On Friday evening the Abbott government remained under pressure to explain why the police-led operation including the Australian Border Force involved stopping people for visa checks - a measure independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie compared to East Germany's Stasi.
Federal MP Clive Palmer offered his own assessment of the operation on Twitter, likening it to 1930's Germany."
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