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It does happen, but luckily we have elections to boot them out. You don't have that liberty. What's worse than an elected corrupt official? An unelected one that can't be fired.

It's not worse. You get to choose who your leaders are. If they are corrupt or incompetent you can simply kick them out and replace them with someone who isnt. It's better than unelected "party officials" being appointed by their corrupt friends.

Maybe its time to move to a democracy where the citizens choose who their leaders are?

So because a few commentators say something, it means the whole population is brainwashed? You base what your saying on a fallacy where you pretend if someone writes something and people read it, they instantly believe it. It's illegal to enter Australia without a visa and no that's not from a...

So what? Newspapers are a dieing medium. Newspapers are not some magical brainwashing device that will instantly brainwash people the second they gaze upon the front page. Save your hysterical frothing posts, you write this crap in every thread. Take it else where. I know, i acknowledged...

Yes yes, everything is a murdoch media conspiracy and racist. You sound like a neo-nazi ranting about how the "jews" control the world, but instead its "rupert murdoch" and his "media" zzzzzz :blah: Thanks for repeating what i just wrote. I'm glad we agree and im glad you finally acknowledge...

Australia has a large refugee intake program that resettles refugees from UNHCR camps right around the world. People who come here illegally by boat are trying to bypass that intake program and jump the queue. A lot are bogus economic migrants or are asylum shoppers who want to be picky about...

Rear Admiral James Goldrick explains what led to Australian ships entering Indonesian waters Writing for ABC News Online, Rear Admiral James Goldrick, who retired in 2012, says the controversy resulted from officers on board the Australian ships making what is by Navy standards, a basic...

Exactly. But Australia is a rich western country with a good welfare system so they desperately want to get here. Afghanistan is literally surrounded by numerous safe countries that are signatory to the convention. They ignore these countries, fly to Indonesia and then get smuggled into...

That's your opinion. LOL. Desperately pulling out all the chestnut lables in one sentence "racist" "bigot" "liar" "murdoch" Unfortunately, whipping all these words into 1 sentence doesnt work :( I have mentioned nothing of anyones race. You love labeling things as "racist" because you...

Lucky for us, over simplistic amateurs aren't in the Indonesian government ;) Not true at all. Illegal immigrants use Indonesia as a launching pad to gain entry into Australia. Since Australia has stopped them from entering Australia, they are now fleeing Indonesia back to their own lands...

Australia now has a competent government that won't allow our border to be controlled by criminal people smugglers. Also good news for Indonesia, Australias border security policy is now stopping illegal immigrants from entering Indonesia aswell. "AUSTRALIA’S crackdown on boatpeople has...

Selling uranium isn't nuclear weapon proliferation. Just because you aren't aware of what they are, doesn't mean they don't exist. The agreement has checks and balances. They seem to take your assumptions/opinions and state is as fact. China doesn't care because China knows Indian can just...

It appears to have been before the election and before he was prime minister as he has no security around him. The most hilarious part is how nuts the guy screaming is. Ranting about "jews" controlling the banks etc. A classic anti-Semitic nutter.

Unfortunately, mistakes like this are made when you are trying desperately to stop thousands of illegal immigrants from swamping your country via Indonesia.

The guy was mentally ill. Not sure why random crime stories are posted on these forums, it's not some big news and it certainly isn't a first time. Crazy stuff like this happens all the time, its a part of life.

Nah it's not training, they plan to invade Indonesia with 2,000 troops, you have caught us out! :disagree:

The USA don't have a base in Darwin. 2,000 marines are just training with Australian soldiers.

Australia scrambled an air force surveillance plane earlier this month to monitor an unannounced Chinese military exercise that took the emerging superpower's ships closer to Australian territory than ever before. In what observers say is a significant strategic development, China carried out...

About time. Indonesian police and officials are heavily involved in drug trafficking. They set foreigners up expecting them to pay huge bribes and then jail them if they don't.