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June 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda An Indonesian politician says his country is concerned about how seriously Australia is treating the problem of people smuggling.
An ABC Four Corners investigation aired on Monday found at least six people-smuggling agents came to Australia on a boat in 2010 posing as genuine asylum seekers.
All were granted residency in Australia.
Tantowi Yahya, a member of an Indonesian parliamentary committee for foreign affairs and security, said Australia’s pledge to end people smuggling had to be queried.
“Our commitment is to find the mastermind behind all of this and we agree with the request from the Australian government to be co-operative with them,” he told ABC Radio on Tuesday.
“But then we have got the news that Australian government is giving refugee status to the smugglers.”
He said Indonesia would like to discuss this situation with Australia’s ambassador, Greg Moriarty, in Jakarta soon.
“So we would like to express our disappointment and we would like to hear more about it.”
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said authorities were on the back foot in assessing asylum claims as about 90 per cent of people had no documentation at all.
“The government is basically guessing who people are and the assessments that are already taking place already start from behind the line,” Mr Morrison told ABC Radio on Tuesday.
Australian Greens immigration spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young said authorities were stopping the wrong people.
“They haven’t been catching the big fish, they’ve been picking on the little fry,” she told ABC Radio.
But Mr Morrison said the first step to end people smuggling was to return to the border protection policies of the previous coalition government.
These measures included reopening the detention centre at the Pacific island of Nauru, the return of temporary protection visas and turning back boats where it was safe to do so.
Mr Morrison said Labor’s ending of those policies had “crashed the system”.
“It has crashed the detention network, it has crashed the budget and it has crashed this broader regime,” he said.
He said fewer than 300 people arrived on illegal boats in the final six years of the Howard government.
“The people smuggling trade was smashed to pieces,” Mr Morrison said.
Six boats carrying about 454 suspected asylum seekers have entered Australian waters since Monday, May 28.
Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan refused to comment on the ABC report.
“I’ll leave those matters for the responsible minister … and the federal police,” he told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
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