Deal to send boat people packing

Deal to send boat people packing

Yet again Howard seems to have no qualms about manipulating the public with xenophobia, deceit and racism in the lead up to an election. He's tried this trick before, with great success - during the Tampa situation in 2001. It disgusts me that he thinks he has the right to take an even harder line, and further screw with international law. What will disgust me more is if the Australian population buy into this, like they bought into the "we won't increase interest rates" line for the last election and the "we decide who we let into Australia" mantra of 2001. How good is the memory of the populace? Or are they still focused purely on money due to the economic strategies of Howard in creating a debt dependant populace.

Of course the biggest reason I left Australia was to be with Astrid, but the political and environmental situation as well as the rampant selfish greed exhibited particularly by the Sydney populace also had a strong influence on my decision to no longer call Australia home. I came to love Sydney as a city in the time i lved there, but am certain that
the factors that attracted me to it are being rapidly destroyed by long term inept governance, ethically corrupt business and selfish residents.

I'd love to see each and every individual in Oz sit down and watch the recent series Decadance from SBS, which SBS should repeat regularly until everyone in Oz has managed to watch it. We are not on the right path, in many ways - and we've possibly gone too far down the wrong path to change track without serious economic damage.