Boat people: evil?
Of late my hyperbole meter has been going through the roof, as often happens when Australian politicians start talking about “illegal immigration”. An interesting article by Michael Epis pretty much sums up the hypocrisy being spouted by the RuddBot, so we can skip over that topic and go straight to a solution.
But first, let’s reflect on NSW’s transport woes.
Actually, let’s not; we all know that Rees and co. couldn’t transport their way out of a central coast nightclub. Straight to the solution.
Why are we wasting taxpayer dollars bribing Indonesia to cop all the illegal immigrants, when we could be ferrying them in to Australia and putting them to work? In the 1940s,with all the post-war immigrants flooding into Australia, someone with half a brain did just that, and we created one of the greatest renewable energy projects in the world – the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme. Today, with climate change threatening to engulf small pacific nations, thereby increasing the number of people looking to jump into leaky boats, we are arguing about how best to offload our responsibility under the relevant UN Convention while at the same time offloading our responsibility to reduce emissions.
Why don’t we just kill two birds with one stone?
Ship in the refugees and put them to work building wind farms, tidal power plants, whatever. Hell, build a giant treadmill attached to a turbine and make them run on it in 4 hour shifts. Work them on a project for 5 years, then give them citizenship.
Let’s build some public transport while we’re at it! A new metro with more than 6 stops. A bullet train from Sydney to Melbourne. Some bloody cycle lanes that aren’t just a line painted on the road.
When we’ve finished with all this stuff, we can move on to further projects, such as demolishing the Cahill Expressway, building a giant wall between Australia and Queensland, filling in all the potholes on our roads, and locating Barnaby Joyce’s brain.
Politics | stu | 
October 22, 2009 12:14 pm | 
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