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"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."


C.S. Lewis

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Charles Reznikoff

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G.K. Chesterton

"Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."


Francis Quarles

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C.S. Lewis
Rudd - the people smugglers’ friend
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Thursday, 16 April 2009

There is a view that we should be 'nicer' to asylum seekers - but are Rudd's measures better than Howard's approach?

Rudd - the people smugglers’ friend

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, April 16, 2009

Could there be, like, a connection?: YET another group of asylum seekers has reached Australian waters - the fourth in a fortnight… Navy patrol boat HMAS Albany intercepted 49 suspected asylum seekers - thought to be mostly Afghan men - two nautical miles off Ashmore Reef, 610km north of Broome at about midday yesterday.

It was the sixth boat to arrive this year, and the 13th since September, when the Rudd Government announced measures aimed at softening Austrlia’s treatment of refugees from the hardline approach adopted by the Howard government.

Read full piece at the Herald Sun

 

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