Does Bill Shorten support BorderForce random visa checks in Melbourne? A -yes B-no Congratulations! A or B are correct!
Friday, 28 August 2015
Shorten changes tune on Vic visa checks
an hour ago
AAP
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten has quietly changed his tune on a controversial visa checking crackdown, following public ridicule and protests in Melbourne.
THE federal government cancelled Operation Fortitude five hours after it was announced on Friday and blamed a clumsy press release for the backlash.
When the operation was still going ahead, Mr Shorten told reporters in Perth Labor believed in targeting crime and hoped the "blitz" would protect Australian laws, ensure temporary workers weren't being exploited and make sure no-one was overstaying their visas.Mr Shorten also said he was concerned about the crackdown being telegraphed to the media but didn't think it would damage Melbourne's international reputation.
But later in the day after hundreds of people protested in Melbourne's CBD, Mr Shorten told 6PR radio the whole thing was a bizarre disaster and questioned what an earth possessed Prime Minister Tony Abbott to do it.
"It's just not the done thing in Melbourne or any other part of Australia," Mr Shorten said."The idea that you're going to send out hundreds of uniformed people just randomly stopping people asking for their papers, that is just bizarre.
"The only bigger disaster would have been if they had gone through with it."
ENDS
Supplementary Question.
What coincidental event took place between Bill's fervent belief that Border Force's operation in Melbourne was a good thing and Bill's fervent belief that it was a bizarre disaster?
a. Bill saw the protests on telly.
b. Bill heard the protesters had a lot of support on the left.
c. It started trending on Twitter.
d The Andrews CFMEU government told the Victoria Police to pull out and they did leaving the Abbott Government's ABF alone and isolated.
e. The mainstream media's take said the protesters had won and the event was cancelled because of community concerns.
f. Labor couldn't attack Tony Abbott on the issue if Bill supported it
g. Labor needed sound grabs of Bill in the media attacking Abbott on the debacle.
h. Bill went for a walk on the road to Damascus.
If you answered everything except probably h. you've been reading Wayne Swan's Twitter.