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20th June 2023, 04:40 AM
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Re: Greece boat disaster
According to the News? Some of the passengers??? paid from $7000 to $12 000 for the privilege of sailing on this heap of rubbish, I assume that this amount of money would be a small fortune in some of the villages they come from, in fact it would be to me, so what rubbish are they being told in their own countries, and from what I have seen they all have mobile phones to find out if what they are being told is true.
Maybe the best way to stop these disasters is for all European countries to close their borders for twelve months to kill the trade.
As for Australia; whom some people like to dig at, we are expecting around 300,000 legal immigrants in the next two years, where they will live is another thorny one; as Australians themselves are having a job to get or rent a house.
Des
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Lest We Forget
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20th June 2023, 06:41 AM
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Re: Greece boat disaster
Yes the Tampa incident was the beginning of our border control policy.
'We will decide who comes here, when and by what ,means'.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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