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September 21st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s push for migration law changes in Parliament is likely to end in defeat. Picture: Kym Smith
Source: Herald Sun
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has rejected suggestions migration law changes are a waste of time, given that no other party will be supporting Labor legislation.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen today introduced to parliament draft laws to put beyond legal doubt the Government’s ability to make deals with other countries to manage asylum seekers and tackle people smuggling.
The Coalition and the Australian Greens have said they will not be supporting the laws in the lower house or the Senate.
Even if Labor’s amendments passed the Lower House, they will be doomed in the Senate, where the Coalition and Greens’ combined numbers will guarantee defeat.
Ms Gillard said she was determined to press ahead after staring down an internal challenge from Left-wing Labor MPs.
After a heated caucus meeting, party elder John Faulkner warned Labor was breaching its platform.
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But the amendments were carried. A motion demanding onshore processing of asylum claims was moved by Left convener Doug Cameron, with support from Victorian MP Laura Smyth, but failed to win support.
In Parliament, Ms Gillard accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of opposing Labor’s Malaysia people-swap plan to keep alive his prime-ministerial ambitions.
“He is terrified that the Malaysia arrangement will work and that’s not in his political interests. He wants to see more boats.”
Mr Abbott responded that “the problem we have now on our borders is all because this Government gave the people smugglers a business model”.
Ms Gillard said bringing the laws to parliament would ensure that Mr Abbott and all other MPs were held to account on “an issue of national importance”.
“People are sick of the politics of this, they want us to act and that’s why I believe Mr Abbott should reflect again when the legislation comes to the parliament,” she told the Nine Network.
“I’d suggest that he thinks about how he felt when he saw those dreadful images of a boat crashing against the rocks of Christmas Island.”
Asked why she did not expect the same of the Greens, on whom Labor relies to govern, Ms Gillard said she had appealed to every member of parliament to reflect on their obligations.
Mr Bowen told parliament Australia would continue to meet its international obligations, including the UN refugee convention.
The laws also address problems raised by the High Court decision in relation to unaccompanied minors, Mr Bowen said.
The minister would retain the right to intervene to determine that a minor or anyone else considered vulnerable should not go to a third country.
Debate on the bill was adjourned on today.
The Coalition will be pursuing an amendment that Australia can only enter into agreements with countries that are signatories to the UN refugee convention.
Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said Labor’s plan had no support in parliament or the community.
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