Creepy Pete is up to his old tricks today, from the Herald Sun:
EIGHT Cameroon athletes who vanished from the Commonwealth Games will be “tracked down” and deported as soon as possible, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says.
The Minister warned this morning the athletes — five boxers and three weightlifters — would not be given preferential treatment if they tried to seek asylum.
“They aren’t going to game the system,” he told 2GB radio this morning.
This looks pretty shitty against his recent unilateral decision to take-in white farmers from Africa. The point being that any refugee entry should be based upon need not colour, without judging either of these cases.
Of course, assuming all of this in not the just the blundering of an old school racist, it’s most likely the continuation of the Howard immigration bait and switch. The Howard Government scapegoated and slammed the door shut on the relatively small number of refugees arriving into Australia by boat all the while stealthily shoving open the door to economic migrants arriving here by plane.
The ultimate result was a massive lift in Australia’s net migration intake, which surged from the early-2000s and pushed population growth to roughly twice long-run norms. In Howard’s first three years in office, Australia’s annual net overseas migration (NOM) averaged just 86,000 people a year. In his last three years in office, NOM averaged 188,000 people a year, and has remained high ever since (and is projected to remain high indefinitely).
John Howard never articulated to the Australian people that the Government was going to dramatically expand the nation’s immigration intake. Why? Because he knew the electorate would be dead against it. And Dutton is repeating the same trick again – giving the impression that the Government is stemming the inflow by cracking on the tiny amount of refugees, all the while allowing in huge numbers of economic migrants in a bid to inflate aggregate GDP growth, support the housing bubble, and please the Coalition’s large corporate backers, who benefit the most from a growing customer base.
Today’s constant racial and migrant flip-flopping in the Government is basically this strategy slowly unraveling as over-population destroys living standards.
