The more you read about the Medivac bill the clearer it becomes just how ridiculous it is. Albanese’s interview with Speers yesterday bordered on surreal. O’Connor and Shorten are just as bad. If none of them think people smugglers aren’t gearing up, they’re naïve. Pointing the finger at Morrison and Dutton and accusing them of stirring smugglers up just proves what a bunch of amateurs Labor are.
I know this is hypothetical however consider this. If boats come and the numbers are high, we may not be in a position based on those sheer numbers to turn all around. Let’s assume one gets through. One board is an asylum seeker who is deemed critically ill or they fall critically ill after arrival. That person will never approved for uplift to the Australia for treatment. That is what Bill Shorten is saying.
Let’s consider this. We have two people one who has been on Nauru for sometime & one potential new arrival. Both with serious illnesses. They would move one to Australia for treatment. One they would not. That’s admitting one of two things. Treatment on Nauru and Manus is available at the level required or Labor are prepared to let one die. The second would never happen. Bill Shorten actually thinks people smuggling barons are not smart enough to figure that out.
Given the money at stake for smuggler barons they’d be prepared to test it and our Intelligence operatives know that. Barons have lost a lot of money since the Coalition Government came to power. That has forced barons to turn to the drug trade. The drug trade is substantially more costly and more risky. If there is the slightest glimmer, the lucrative people smuggling operation is a go barons will jump. There are any number of poor fisherman prepared to risk as well. If Shorten thinks they won’t, he is extremely gullible.
This debacle is the same scenario as franking credits. The haves and have nots with two levels of Govt pensioners. If you are receiving the Government pension before March 28, 2018 you keep the credit if you went onto the pension after March 29 you will lose it.
This is so typical of Labor. They come up with these hairbrained policies. Then they’re confronted with oops moments so rather than dumping the policy they try and amend them and look what we are left with. A mess of monumental proportions. Labor sold the electorate ‘pups’ with both Medivac and Imputations Tax. If the electorate is gullible enough to buy this rubbish, then they deserve each other. However, the rest of with brains don’t deserve the shambles that will follow.
