Australian federal government hypocrisy as refugee boats are sunk in tuna zone

When the Australian Labor Party, under pressure from the Greens, opened the nation's borders to alleged refugees, they unwound the Coalition’s Border Protection Policy and allowed some 32,000 potential Labor and Green voters and 545 vessels into Australian waters.

On the 20th of June, Australia's Senator for Queensland, Ron Boswell, gave a speech to the Australian Senate regarding the Labor Government's controversial 'Marine Reserves' bill that was announced earlier this month. A transcript of the speech is included below in full:

The 2012 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Annual Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur earlier this year, highlighted the development of the tourism sector in both Malaysia and at the global level.

Potentially game-changing research that could slash fuel costs and meet tough new environmental regulations in the shipping industry was recently unveiled at the China Maritime trade show in Hong Kong.

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened with extinction.