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The New York Times has slammed Australia’s offshore detention policy
news.com.au ^ | 12th December 2016

Posted on 12/11/2016 7:42:13 PM PST by naturalman1975

THE NEW York Times has launched a blistering attack on Australia’s controversial asylum seeker policy, slamming Immigration Minister Peter Dutton as our “own little Trump”.

The weekend feature, called ‘Broken Men in Paradise’, sees Times op-ed columnist Roger Cohen speaking to various detainees on Manus Island and Nauru, and human rights lawyers.

His article deems Australia’s policy of offshore detention a “growing embarrassment” to the country, concluding that Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is Australia’s version of President-election Donald Trump.

“The government says it has prevented deaths like those in the Mediterranean, where more than 4,000 migrants have drowned this year,” Cohen writes.

“By turning back the “queue jumpers,” a phrase that resonates in a nation devoted to a “fair go” for all, it has safeguarded Australia’s right to select who gets to people a vast and empty country. The official vow that those marooned on Manus and Nauru will never live in Australia has assumed doctrinal vehemence.

“In Peter Dutton, the immigration minister, the country has its own little Trump.”

He notes Mr Dutton’s harsh rhetoric on asylum seekers over this past year — namely his portrayal of them as illiterates bent on stealing Australian jobs, and his recent suggestion that the Fraser government made “mistakes” in letting in Lebanese-Muslim immigrants.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; fakenews; manus; nauru; nyslimes; offshoredetention; realpropaganda; rogercohen

1 posted on 12/11/2016 7:42:13 PM PST by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

I’m sure that the Aussies will be devastated when they hear what the NYT has to say about their government./s

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2 posted on 12/11/2016 7:47:36 PM PST by Mears
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To: naturalman1975
TELL NYT To Go To Hell!

USA Should Be Doing The Same!

(PS: Love That Graphic!)

3 posted on 12/11/2016 7:48:29 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: naturalman1975
He notes Mr Dutton’s harsh rhetoric on asylum seekers over this past year — namely his portrayal of them as illiterates bent on stealing Australian jobs, and his recent suggestion that the Fraser government made “mistakes” in letting in Lebanese-Muslim immigrants.

Mr. Dutton sounds like the right man for the job.

4 posted on 12/11/2016 7:48:56 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: naturalman1975

The Australians are not cooperating with the destruction of Western Civilization that the NYT is trying to bring about.
Obama is taking Australia’s rejects to the US instead.


5 posted on 12/11/2016 7:50:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: naturalman1975
I hope Mr. Trump emulates Australia's no nonsense immigration policies.

The people must be protected from the muslim scourge.

6 posted on 12/11/2016 7:50:35 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: Fiddlstix
(PS: Love That Graphic!)

It's the official poster Australia is putting up in sixteen different languages all over the world, where those who need to read it can see it.

7 posted on 12/11/2016 7:52:29 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

I think the NYT should be SACKED!! But what do I know?


8 posted on 12/11/2016 8:00:22 PM PST by WENDLE
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To: Mears

Apparently for their own good and protection they are not quite as dumb and accommodating as the United States which apparently is hell bent on self destruction. To their credit Australia learns from examples and uses the experience other countries had in order to avoid making the same mistake. There is little doubt in mind that sooner or later we will see something resembling the last and final crusade, to eliminate this curse of mankind. I just hope I will be gone by then. But rest assured if mankind wants to advance and continue on its evolutionary path it will do it without this hindrance of a ball and chain called by some a religion.


9 posted on 12/11/2016 8:06:40 PM PST by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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To: saintgermaine

“I just hope I will be gone by then.”

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I KNOW I will,but the world I will be leaving for my grandchildren horrifies me.

It is unrecognizable.

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10 posted on 12/11/2016 8:16:53 PM PST by Mears
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To: naturalman1975

We need an island like that!


11 posted on 12/11/2016 8:34:59 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: naturalman1975

There is always the mansion of the honourable Thomas Friedman, columnist for the New York Times. Why, he could live in an expensive condo in New York itself. Go and take a peep at how migrants would use his residence once in a while. I am sure they would be very grateful to him.


12 posted on 12/11/2016 9:04:50 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Lurkinanloomin

How Genghis Khan saved the world from Islam

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3503582/posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT76sy9RSf0

Genghis Khan, Charles Martel and Trump saved the world from Islam


13 posted on 12/12/2016 1:45:49 AM PST by Democrat_media (bot funded Jill Stein's recount website.12 million $ from Soros behind big scheme)
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To: Mears

His article deems Australia’s policy of offshore detention a “growing embarrassment”.

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Wait a sec. Didn’t Australia get its start as an “off shore detention facility”?


14 posted on 12/12/2016 3:07:18 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: naturalman1975
The weekend feature, called ‘Broken Men in Paradise’, sees Times op-ed columnist Roger Cohen speaking to various detainees on Manus Island and Nauru, and human rights lawyers.

I wonder if Cohen has disparaged Israel's policy on illegals.

15 posted on 12/12/2016 3:11:49 AM PST by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: naturalman1975
THE NEW York Times has launched a blistering attack on Australia’s controversial asylum seeker policy, slamming Immigration Minister Peter Dutton as our “own little Trump”.

Is the New York Times fomenting revolution in Australia? Is that legal?

What right does the New York Times have to complain that Australia is enforcing its immigration laws?

16 posted on 12/12/2016 3:50:40 AM PST by olezip
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To: olezip
The New York Times has slammed Australia’s offshore detention policy

Has anyone been identified who cares what the NY Times thinks or prints?

moving right along...

17 posted on 12/12/2016 4:12:09 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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