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September 22nd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Updated
The Government is standing firm in its attempt to get its asylum legislation through Parliament.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is calling on the Federal Government to resign if it cannot get its contentious offshore-processing plan through the Parliament.
The Government today brought forward debate on its proposed changes to the Migration Act, which it says are required to put its Malaysian asylum seeker deal beyond any further High Court challenge.
The Leader of the House, Anthony Albanese, says the Government is standing firm in its attempt to get the legislation passed.
“Our plan is the legislation that we’ve got before the Parliament. Our plan is to get it voted on. Our plan is to get it through,” he said.
But the Coalition and the Greens are still promising to vote against the amendments. The Government, conversely, will not support a Coalition amendment.
Mr Abbott has sought to turn the issue into a leadership test, seizing on the Government’s argument that its Malaysian solution is needed to control the nation’s borders.
“A government which cannot protect the borders of our country is a government that is incapable of doing its job,” he said.
“A prime minister who is incapable of protecting the borders of our country is a prime minister who has manifestly failed in the highest task she has.
“Frankly, it is a government and a prime minister who should resign.”
Mr Abbott says the Government’s policy amounts to “offshore dumping” and strips away basic human rights protections for asylum seekers who Australia would send overseas for processing.
“We support offshore processing. We invented offshore processing. We have the patent on offshore processing. But I tell you what, it was never offshore dumping,” he said.
The Coalition is insisting the offshore destination must have ratified the UN refugee convention, but Labor MP David Bradbury says this is no guarantee for the treatment of asylum seekers.
“Under Mr Abbott’s proposal, offshore processing could occur in Iran but not the United States,” he said.
‘Rank hypocrisy’
Mr Bradbury has accused the Opposition of wanting to handcuff the Government from being able to implement effective border protection.
Labor parliamentary secretary Richard Marles also spoke out in support of the Government’s plan.
“The mob opposite has stopped trying to solve this problem and they are now simply engaged in rank politics, and in turn that is leading them to rank hypocrisy,” he said.
“One of the best aspects of this Malaysia arrangement is that it will see Australia increasing the number of refugees that we take by 1,000 people each year. That indicates the compassion which our Government is seeking to bring to the resolution of this problem.”
But Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison says Labor’s plan is a “nightmare” for that party’s MPs.
“The question now for the Government is, how many of their own members that sit on those benches will be muzzled?” he said.
“How many of them will sit silent? After a decade of vilifying the Coalition, they will now sit silent on that side as their own Government introduces their own worst nightmare in this bill.”
Greens MP Adam Bandt has condemned MPs on both sides, calling the debate “a race to the bottom”.
“It is a sad day when the Labor Party comes into this place and says our position on refugees is tougher because we will send them to a country where they might be caned,” he said.
“And the Liberal Party then says, no, ours is tougher because we will tow boats back out to sea no matter what fate awaits the people on them.
“As long as the two old parties are locked in this deadly embrace, we are going to continue this race to the bottom and we are not going to have a rational debate in this country.”
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