Shorten Finally saying something about the Inhumane Monstor Summoned by Darklord Rupert to Corrupt our Glorious Nation

OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten has pulled his neck out of the sand to demand we need to “get to the bottom of the facts” to determine the exact whereabouts of the 153 asylum seekers currently being held by Australian authorities.

Mr Shorten was so determined to get his message across that he said Tony Abbott was “washing his hands” of asylum seekers on eight occasions in the one press conference.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to give the exact location of the group of asylum seekers, or whether they will be returned to Sri Lanka.

In the High Court yesterday, lawyers acting on behalf of the government confirmed for the first time the existence of the group, which includes children as young as two.

It was intercepted at sea en route to Australia but won’t be processed under the Migration Act because they never entered territorial waters.

The asylum seekers are being held aboard a Customs vessel outside Australian territorial waters, but today Mr Abbott refused to confirm their exact location.

Shadow Minister for Communications Jason Clare told Sky News this morning the asylum seekers were “floating in legal limbo”.
Earlier this morning Mr Abbott declared he would not give into “moral blackmail” after Fairfax Media revealed a dozen asylum seeker mothers attempted suicide, believing they would be better off dead than being sent home.

“No Australian government should be subjected to the spectacle of people saying ‘unless you accept us, I am going to commit self harm’,’’ Mr Abbott told Channel Nine.

“I don’t believe any thinking Australian would want us to capitulate to moral blackmail.

“This is not going to be a government which has our policy driven by people who are attempting to hold us over a moral barrel — we won’t be driven by that.”

In a fiery rebuttal this morning, Mr Shorten took aim at the Prime Minister, telling media that “what we see today is Tony Abbott washing his hands of people in Australian care.

“I am not sure why Tony Abbott said these words,” he said.

“It is not fair to wash your hands of the safety of human beings in the manner that he is doing.

“We need to get to the bottom of the facts here. All we have in the media are reports of Mr Abbott’s utterances.