Refugee Crisis ... Another Labour Stuff-Up

Lefty Journos lay refugee stuff-up at Libs feet. .. Uuhh?

In light of the recent tragedies unfolding around Christmas Island, just about every news bulletin at the moment seems to be laying the blame for Australia's ongoing refugee fiasco at the feet of the Liberal opposition. Howling that Abbott should bow to Gillard's wishes and give in to the Malaysian Solution... I don't understand. Isn't that solution bad for refugees?

Let's put some facts on the table and scrape away some of the bullshit.

When Labour came to power they threw out a perfectly sound package of Liberal policies that had stopped people smuggling in its tracks. They did this purely for political reasons.

Labours bleeding heart policies allowed people smugglers to get back to business with a very saleable package. Allowing people (Not necessarily refugees) to jump the queue, at great expense and considerable danger, to catch leaky boats to Australia. While the genuine and poorer refugees waited in line behind the queue jumpers. 

Very quickly a trickle of boats grows to a flood, as more and more people smugglers become involved in this very lucrative trade. (Getting paid even though some of their customers were lost at sea). Until we have an ever increasing boarder protection mess.

Gillard stabs Rudd in the back and scrapes into power with the support of the Greens and a gaggle of independents.

The refugee problem gets that bad that Labour must now rethink their failed policies, and after a couple of botched attempts (Onshore processing, the Timor solution and other pie in the sky suggestions.) They finally decide on the Malaysian Solution. Anything to avoid admitting they were wrong in the first place.

The Malaysian Solution then runs into problems, not least of all with our human rights laws. With some comparing the treatment of refugees in Malaysia to our live cattle export problems. (An exaggeration of course, but you get the drift.)

Now everyone opposes the Malaysian Solution, Australian Law, Labours allies in government (The Greens and Independents) and the Opposition. But does that dissuade Julia?.. Nooo! She wants to legislate to change our human rights laws so that she can exchange 800 asylum seekers with Malaysia for 4000 confirmed refugees. Even if you disregard the lopsided numbers in this "deal", what will happen to the poor 800 people who would be shoved off to Malaysia without human rights assurances? 

So now that her allies in government have refused to back her halfwit plan to change our human rights laws so that she might have a political win. She suddenly turns the blame for the failure of  her ill conceived plan on the Opposition.

But if that is not bizarre enough, the labour leaning Journos of this country, instead of questioning the incompetence of the Government and the lack of support of their Green and Independent allies, decide that it is the Opposition that is at fault. No matter that the policies that they stand by have already proved successful. 

And now that the Opposition has suggested a compromise on the basis of common ground. I.E. voting to make secure law for off shore processing in all countries that are signatories to the UN refugee charter. They are still portrayed as the bad guys because they won't include Malaysia in the compromise. But as I asked before...Isn't that deal bad for refugees? 

My questions are, in light of the failure of just about every major policy the current Government has presided over, including during their time under Rudd. 

Would you sign off on a totally untested scheme which, on the surface, condemns asylum seekers to uncertain human rights in Malaysia? 

Why isn't the popular media pressuring the elected government (Including the Greens and independents) for compromise? Considering that they don't want to back flip to policies that worked.

Why can't that band of happy little Vegemites (Labour, Greens, and Independents) sit down and thrash out a solution? After all they're supposed to be allies and have the numbers in government.

Why is it the fault of the opposition that the elected government can't swallow their pride and go back to the proven solutions of the Howard Government?

Please, it's the greatest failed government since the Whitlam era. This is yet another disaster by a government that lurches from bad policy to bad policy, all made for political reasons more than for the good of Australians.