Thursday, December 10, 2009

Opposition Reshuffle Promotes Wacky Ideas

The shadow cabinet reshuffle this week has delivered some real hacks back into the public eye, notably (and unbelievably), Bronwyn Bishop.
Further, its only taken a few days for the flow of some lovely quotable quotes.
First up is "Crazy" Kevin Andrews, infamous for his bungling of the Dr Haneef affair, who today declared
''If you look at the 2008 data, you would need about 35,000 immigrants on top of births to replace the population (for that year). So I say the starting point should be replacement levels of population, then ask what additional population we need so the country can be economically and otherwise sustainable and growing,''
This from the former Immigration Minister to the Howard Government; a government which presided over an immigration surge from 83,000 to 158,800 for 2007-08.
Seems Crazy Kev is taking to re-writing history, not unlike his former leader.
Next we look at Barnaby's Bumbling Blast.