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April 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The government has blamed the opposition for what could have been a tragedy when an asylum seeker boat went missing off Indonesia, as well as for the arrival of the latest vessel off Christmas Island.
But the opposition says this will all continue so long as the government provides people smugglers with a business model which permits ready settlement of their passengers.
In the latest developments, an asylum seeker boat carrying 19 passengers was intercepted off Christmas Island while another carrying some 60 Afghans, which had been missing for some 36 hours and feared lost off Indonesia, was located on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
The government said the latest boat arrival was the 20th since the opposition rejected working with the government to achieve offshore processing of asylum seekers.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said both the government and opposition believed offshore processing was the best way to prevent dangerous boat journeys and this stalemate had gone on far too long.
“Asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat face very real risks and we need to work together now to prevent another tragedy from occurring,” he said in a statement on Saturday.
Mr Bowen said if the government and opposition had reached agreement last year, the Malaysia Agreement could have been in place, and asylum seekers would also have been detained on Nauru and PNG’s Manus Island.
He said it was a relief that the missing boat had been found but it was inevitable that more tragedies would occur with a high number of boats arriving.
“This whole episode though is just another reminder of the dangers and why we need a proper deterrent of offshore processing to stop these boat journeys,” he told Sky News.
“This is, if you like, a bullet missed.”
Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the boats would keep coming while Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said no.
“Stopping this is within our grasp. Working together we can help stop people dying at sea. We can pass legislation to introduce offshore processing,” he said in a statement.
Mr Abbott said it was good that those aboard the missing boat were safe.
“But as long as this government provides people smugglers with a business model, there will be boats coming and there will be tragedies at sea,” he told reporters in Sydney.
“The only way to stop the tragedies is to stop the boats and the only way to stop the boats is to have rigorous offshore processing, better protection visas and the option of turning boats around when it is safe to do so.”
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