I READ with astonishment this week that almost $200,000 a week is being spent on charter flights to take asylum seekers to and from Christmas Island to ease pressure on the overcrowded offshore detention centre.
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With uncontrollable spending on asylum seekers, it is little wonder that we are made to beg for important things like a local cancer centre.
The government’s first priority should be to look after its own citizens and protect its own borders.
Labor has lost complete control of our borders and we are paying for it locally.
— MICHAEL McLEISH,
Killara
