If it’s not bad enough that Australia has to deal with the trail of poo left behind by Jacinda Ardern, now her weak, wet imitator is throwing a few handfuls of his own across the Tasman.
I refer, of course, to the infamous “Direction 99” pushed through by the Albanese government and its boat-chasing activist Immigration Minister. This ministerial direction was a direct result of Ardern’s endless tanty-throwing when Australia shipped off Kiwi-born refuse back where they came from. To pander to Socialist Cindy’s tantrums, her fellow deep-red idiot, Anthony Albanese, pushed through changes that allowed the worst convicted foreigners to stay on and continue to plague Australia.
These included Jacinda’s beloved gang members, as well as rapists, murderers and paedophiles. After weeks of scandal, the PM has overridden Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and announced changes to Direction 99.
And Cindy’s tit-headed shadow is throwing a Cindy-lite sulk.
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he regrets Australia’s decision to rewrite Direction 99 following controversy.
Mr Luxon said New Zealand will be “advocating very strongly” while at a press conference this morning, according to reports.
In other words, he’ll stamp his feet and hold his breath, just like his predecessor.
“We understand Australia is a sovereign nation, and it can make its own decisions, but we have great concern about that decision because we don’t think that people who have very little attachment to this country but with strong connections to Australia should be deported here.
The Australian
Too bad. They’re not our citizens, they’re yours. Suck it up.
Anyway, Australians can take any promise by Albanese to fix up the mess he created with a Siberian grain of salt.
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles shelved a plan to tighten visa rules that would have helped to ensure foreign-born criminals who terrorised family members were kicked out of Australia, in damning revelations about the early formulation of his ill-fated Direction 99 policy.
The same Home Affairs department advice over the push to give foreign criminals more leniency if they had ties in Australia also revealed the government appeared more sensitive to how the original policy shift would be received in New Zealand than in Australia.
But that was when Albo’s socialist bestie was in the Beehive. Just because Luxon is a soggy wet imitation of Ardern in a blue tie, doesn’t mean that Albanese won’t as reflexively recoil in horror as an PIJF-funded luvvy.
Even if he’ll lie through his teeth about it.
“What we do is we determine our own policy according with our own interests and that is what we have done and, indeed, the request publicly from New Zealand was to remove section 501 (of the Migration Act) – we did not do that,” the Prime Minister told question time on Thursday.
But a 2022 Home Affairs department submission – sent directly to Mr Giles in the weeks after the criminal visa shift was announced – shows the main risks identified in formulating Direction 99 were concerns about how the policy would be scrutinised in New Zealand and the need to have a “whole of government” approach to answering queries from Wellington.
The Australian
To which Australians are entitled to ask: who actually runs this country? The government in Canberra, or the one in Wellington?
