Even more reason to dismiss this excuse Kevin Rudd offered for his worst mistake: LEIGH SALES: Do you now accept that you were wrong when you were elected to dismantle the Howard Government’s Pacific Solution? KEVIN RUDD: Well what I said before was that we took a policy to the ‘07 election. We were returned on the basis of that policy. I said we’d implement the policies we took to the people. When we got to 2009-’10, what happened was that you suddenly had, as I said before, a war in Sri Lanka; you also had new people movements out of countries such as Afghanistan and elsewhere ... The Australian reports: AFGHAN asylum-seekers outnumbered Sri Lankans by two to one in 2009, casting doubt on Labor’s claim that its failure to toughen immigration policy after Sri Lanka’s civil war was pivotal in the revival of the smuggling trade… An analysis of Immigration Department figures showed that in 2009 just 736 Sri Lankans arrived by boat, or about 27 per cent of total arrivals for that year. By comparison, 1409 Afghans arrived in 2009… Sri Lankans did not start arriving en masse until last year when 6428 arrived....
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:41:17 +0000
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