The CPSU spin on plans to cut staffing levels at the Immigration Department (as reported by the ABC) shows no original thinking.
How long will people keep throwing out the “protecting our borders” crap to try and scare the public into thinking we somehow need to staff up on bureaucrats? A simple way to make sure down-sizing doesn’t place us at risk of invasion (probably by crowds of screeching savages with bombs strapped to their persons) by scary foreign folk (yet to be identified but I’m sure the women will be wearing head scarves while the men will be of dark complexion with facial hair a-plenty) would be to ensure that job cuts do not come from the areas which actually do work on border protection issues AT the border, namely in State offices and overseas.
[ED – Liberal Senator Garry Humphries seems to be taking the CPSU line too.]