Ruddock: Lock up your bordersWriting in today’s Oz, Philip Ruddock repeats yesterday’s (and last decade’s) warning that Australia is facing a “flood” of people smugglers and asylum seekers flocking to our borders.
People smuggling
VIDEO: The economics of people smuggling
With the boat people issue ongoing, Dr Khalid Koser looks at where the story begins. How much do migrant smugglers charge? And why is it cheaper to go to Australia than North America?
People smuggling crackdown: proceed with caution
In seeking Malaysia’s help to crack down on people smuggling, the federal government needs to make sure that it doesn’t make things worse for asylum seekers, says Andrew Bartlett.
Tips and rumours: The real boat people story?
A Crikey tipster lets in on the “real story” behind the Ashmore reef explosion, while another reckons the Immigration Department is broke.
Why “Just Say No” to people smugglers won’t work
If you were a Tamil in that situation, facing – at best – life in a barbed wire camp, how would you respond to someone offering you a place on a boat?
Guy Rundle: Rudd’s hero was a people smuggler
Three years ago, Kevin Rudd wrote of the influence on his life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who, incidentally, was arrested helping Jews escape to Switzerland.
Crikey Says: A letter addressed to the electorate office of Malcolm Turnbull…
Crikey reader Mathew Kenneally has intercepted the following letter addressed to the electorate office of Malcolm Turnbull…
Sinking ships and people smugglers
Meanwhile in the Mediterranean…
Crikey Says: Boat arrivals are, sorry, a drop in the ocean of illegal entries to this country.
This debate over immigration and illegal entry into Australia is turning increasingly to the ridiculous.
Asylum cover up? What asylum cover up?
If nothing else, last week confirmed that as a nation we still have some sort of complex about boat people.
Boat people: Australia talks back
Nothing melts the talkback lines better than boat people. Mel, Chris, Val, Rober, Kay, Ron and Melba all have an opinion.
Crikey Says: Bolt plumbs new depths in asylum seeker debate
Comments by Andrew Bolt and co. in the 36 hours since the Ashmore explosion show politics and public debate at their absolute worst.
Crikey Clarifier: Why won’t Indonesia stop the people smugglers?
Corruption, bribery and boats: we know that asylum seekers who attempt to come to Australia by boat invariably come via Indonesia, and that much of the problem lies there.
Nothing soft — or cheap — about our border protection
The most alarming thing about our border protection arrangements in north-western Australia is not that they are insufficient, it’s that they are far in excess of what is justified.
