Prime Minister Gillard urges Australians to express their fears about asylum seekers, without worrying about “political correctness”.

What is she up to?

Is she saying that if voters tell her they want boat people to stop arriving, she will make it happen?

When Mr Howard more or less made it happen, didn’t the ALP leadership (including JG) label his methods “draconian” and “racist”?

Have they suddenly had a change of heart?

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One person un-worried about political correctness is Rev Fred Nile, head of the so-called Christian Democratic Party (CDP), for whose Senate candidates we will have an opportunity to vote soon.

The CDP’s policies include the following:

Australia should adopt a ten year moratorium on Muslim immigration, allowing an assessment to be made on the social and political disharmony currently occurring in countries like the Netherlands, France and the UK, so that Australia may avoid making the same mistakes.

This would also allow a decade for Muslim leaders and community in Australia to reassess their situation, rejecting any attempt to establish an “Islamic nation” within Australia.

The CDP’s website also draws attention to a couple of poll results:

On 12th March, 98.7% of people polled by the Daily Telegraph agreed with the Christian Democratic Party’s call for an immediate moratorium on Muslim immigration.

On 18th March, Channel 9’s Sunday program asked: “Do you think fundamentalist Islamic beliefs can co-exist with broader Australia values?”  94% said NO.

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Australia is obliged under United Nations conventions to accept refugees arriving on our shores. But we are not obliged to retain fake refugees. It is our duty to detect and reject any who merely seek to by-pass normal processes of applying for refugee status in Australia.

It is said that most of those arriving at Christmas Island have paid tens of thousands of dollars to people-smugglers for the opportunity to sail to Australia. These people are delaying or preventing others who have applied for refugee status and are held up in unhygienic refugee camps waiting hopefully for their turn.

There is definitely a need for thorough screening. Did it not turn out that four of the Tamil asylum-seekers rescued by the Oceanic Viking were later deemed a threat to national security by ASIO?