THE federal government has reached a legal settlement with the captain of a Vietnamese fishing boat after it destroyed the vessel he used to bring 53 asylum seekers to Australia in 2003.
The confidential settlement ends a long-running court case which has cost the government millions.
Last year three Federal Court judges ruled that if the government could not establish a lawful basis for destroying the boat, the Hao Kiet, its captain was entitled to compensation.
In 2003 the government reopened the Christmas Island detention centre to house the asylum seekers and spent $50 million keeping them there for two years before all were granted temporary protection visas.
uncle
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unbelivable
what can you say,eveb the A seekers can use our high courts?????? what the f... is going on???
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Lastchance
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Absolutely!
We are one of the weakest countries in the modern world!!!
There is never any hesitation from either side of Government to F%ck over real Australians at the drop of a hat, but when it comes to ILLEGAL immigrants (and other minority groups with or without Australian residence status) they bend over and cant help enough in fear of discrinination or a poor Human Rights score card from some overeducated, undersexed, overweight lesbian maggot from the United Nations who barely speaks engrish.
These people are coming here because they are too cowardly to fight and defend their own country and beliefs - and before everyone calls me a narrow minded biggott - if they are that down trodden and desperate, how can they afford to pay somaone tens of thousands of dollars EACH to get smuggled into our country, destroying their identification before they get caught so their identity is unknown?
Atleast our troops are fighting their war and dying for them........
Sorry for the Heaps negative comments, and I know this is a fishing forum, but like Tony, this makes my blood absolutely boil......
Paully
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Spot On Lastchance -
I second that.
Muppet
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Ahh yes
The decision makers. Pillars of our society. One thing for sure is they do not represent me in the decision making process they adopt. They are weak as p%^s
And people wonder why the community is the way it is today !
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Ryan C
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asylum seekers
i third that!!!!, surely the coastguard need some more practice withy the brownings mounted on the patrol boat!!
pale ale
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LIKE!!
LIKE!!
Tony Halliday
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I can't even get my
I can't even get my twin sisters, baby niece and brother inlaw in here legaly!
one is qualfied as a pre-school teacher and the other repairs histrocial books with her husband who is trades saleman.
All three would have a job, contribute to the society and become true blue Aussies if given a chance, yet you can hop on boat in Indo, take your chances with the sea and be given a "free pass in" once you get to Christmass Island!
I don't begrudge the refugee, I begrudge the system that makes it hard for honest people to get in and rewards those that take the illegal routes!
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
roberta
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Totally agree everybody
the wheel that squeaks the most gets the grease. I know under the Un charter have to give safe anchorage to these dole bludgers, but from what I've read the first port of call is were they are legally entitled to seek aslyum which is Indonesia not Xmas Island, go figure. I just can't understand them leaving their country when they all should be figting for their freedom, along side our diggers and other army forces that are there.
Tony I feel your pain for your twin sisters, have friends also trying to get blood relations over here. Maybe they all should go to Indonesia, hop on a leaky boat and seek aslyum here.
I also don't begrudge immigrants coming here, as long as they come through the front door, don't care what colour skin or religion they are, just do it legally.
Don't know if their any any lawyers on FW, but my question is how can non Australians get lawyers, legal aid, when they aren't Aussie citizens?
Ginger Tablets Rock
pale ale
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Too many do gooders who
Too many do gooders who bloody supply all the illegals with mobile phones and everything else they want to help them rort our crappy system.
When those illegals were protesting on Darwin roof, they all had mobile phones. How can they get a mobile account. You need to supply bloody drivers license to get a mobile account.
DhuBoi
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thats a shitty labor
thats a shitty labor government for you , Wranga Gillard is useless . Needs the boot ASAP.
living is fishing
DhuBoi
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i dont care if they come here
i dont care if they come here legally , just SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE IN ALL PUBLIC AREAS , LEARN AND LOVE OUR CULTURES , LEAVE YOUR RELIGOUS CRAP BEHIND. you come to Australia for a new life.
living is fishing
chookc
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trouble is they The girls in power are bleeding us dry
Qld 's Anna Wasted money hand over fist in that state with toll road and tunnels everywhere that no one uses.. Power stations green eco friendly scraped and it goes on.. Qld coffersd are empty and now they have to rebuild all the infrastructure.. Same in NSW and Canberra. They (labor ) never save for a rainy day... Spend it all now so we look good and let some one else pick up the pices..
Ifr we are not carefull this country will be soley run by women its already three staes and the top job.. We need someone with big balls to stand up and stop pussy footing around all these so calle do gooders...
Its a sad stae when the youth of today can not even think for themselves. I am so seriously over spoon feeding under 25's its not funny..
Rant over
Billcollector
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Look carefully chookc I think
Look carefully chookc I think she has already had a pair of big balls hanging off her ear loabs, though that might have been Krudds I suspect
synthos
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anex it
Why dont they just annex Xmas island ? then it would be another 1000km for the boats and they would think twice gettign one them.
Tony Halliday
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Well the POMS did use
Well the POMS did use Christmass Island for multiple thermo-nuke testing from 1957 to late 1958
Well maybe we need to start again...
then again just spread the runor that Christmas Island is still in fact dealdy radio active and thats why the detention centre is there.... that will close it down and stop people coming...
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Mick
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Or with the majority of boat
Or with the majority of boat arrivals being of muslim beliefs, why not set up a massive industrial-sized PIGGERY. Come thru the front door people.
If the lord did not mean for us to eat fish and game, he wouldn't have made them outta meat
The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound. That's why so many people appear bright...until they speak.
Tony Halliday
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yeah before you all jump on
yeah before you all jump on myback, I know there are two Christmas Islands and ones out in the middle of the Pacific
question is do they know that...
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Alan James
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Back on Track
If the three Federal Court judges ruled that if the government could not establish a lawful basis for destroying the boat then it would suggest to me that it wasn't the judges that got it wrong. The judges are there to ensure the law is upheld and in this case in their opinion it was. Perhaps the law didn't suit the occasion but that is not the judges' fault.?
Tony Halliday
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no they interpret the law for
no they interpret the law for us in many cases...
how often do you see two judges and two different rulings on the same case...
many times, it called appeal upheld or over ruled
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Alan James
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Would you rather they didn't interpret the law?
The world would be a very different place today in that instance. If there is no law to suit the occasion it must be lawful. There were no different rulings in this case. Like it ot not I'm confident the judges made the right decision in accordance with the law.
out wide
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We the mug punters
voted the dick heads in. When will the peolpe wake up to the bullshit the alp put on us. Every alp state is broke as usual, country going down the gurgler, still borowing $120 mill /day, they wont stop the invasion in fact they love them, throw $100's millions at em, because they will all vote for the alp, what a way to buy votes.
till
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Ahh thats a crazy claim, even
Ahh thats a crazy claim, even for your usual paranoid anti-ALP rantings. The first problem is Asylum Seekers can't vote. Before we start on political bias, there are only about 13k a year, and that number has remained pretty much flat since 2004. Oh and Australia has at least 11million voters, so 13k is a pretty pissant number.