Hooking up with Harmony the robot lady is fast becoming harder than 'Chinese arithmetic'.
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Yes, in bambuland in 2007 Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd was elected Prime Minister, promising even more free stuff and better times that Conservative PM John Howard was providing.
'First' thing he did was declare Howard's "Pacific Solution" for asylum-seekers as being "racist and too harsh"...thereby opening the flood gates.
The People were outraged [well, enough were to cause his decline in the polls]...and the Labor govt replaced him with Julia Gillard as PM.
The boats kept coming...800 boats and 50,000 people in them.
As Ms Gillard declined in the polls the Labor govt replaced her with Kevin Rudd as PM again.
He then drew a line in the sand, said that any asylum seekers who arrived by boat from then on would never ever be settled in Australia...but instead would be held in offshore detention centres where they'd be processed by the UNHCR and resettled in other countries.
Did that stop people paying people smugglers, still expecting to be settled in Australia?
No.
So they found themselves housed in detention centres on Manus Island and in tents/buildings on Nauru...in shipping containers in PNG [Manus Is] as the 2013 election neared.
Too little too late and he/Labor govt were booted out of office.
Like Trump, Rudd told the world very clearly that the days of simply waltzing into terra Australis undocumented and non-investigated were over.