Trentham

The Australian government is in for the money. I had to laugh when they executed the 2 Australians in Indonesia and the firm message that PM send to Indonesia.

After the bodies was shipped back to Australia business is normal but the only factor was that the Indonesians said Australia can stick their aid in their ass.

Don't know really what to say about Australia but they don't fit in any region.

I agree with your first 2 sentences except that I never laughed during that sad period. What sickened me was the Indonesian ambassador offering his condolences to the families the very next day after killing those 2 guys.

As for where we fit, well we allow the world to fit in here. See the following http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-24/study-reveals-refugees-boosting-nhill-economy/6417620 . Melbourne is the second largest Greek city in the world but even so we have more Italians than Greeks. Oz is a highly successful multicultural country where it really works.

Most people love and accept all the countless nationalities that go there to live. It is mostly the press beating up stories [half of it owned by right wing Rupert Murdoch] and a right wing Liberal [only in name] government which is stirring up hatred against Muslims to try to stay in power.

Julie Bishop, the foreign minister who is doing a deal with Thailand is a part of that government. As an Aussie I am embarrassed and ashamed of of that.

But don't give up on us. Most Aussies are laid back, easy going people who accept others from all over the world. After all, 25% of us were born in another country and most of the rest of us have foreign parents or grandparents from somewhere else. I am in fact a "First Fleeter".

The only true Australians are the aboriginal people and I acknowledge that although I am white, I was born and raised on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people

Trentham, arrive in Australia with no passport by boat & expect to be locked up, you put your child on that boat at your peril. Australia now has clinics for diseases that were eradicated. Arrive in Australia as a genuine refugee & not economic refugee you wouldn't care if you were on Manus island, if you weren't being bombed or murdered, you were safe, you'd be eternally grateful. Not complaining about everything & wanting the host country to change to suit you.

I was referring to the kids being locked up which is causing enormous psychological damage to them.

It seems you are just another heartless Liberal voter trying to make lame excuses for their breaking of international law and locking kids away.

As for this - Australia now has clinics for diseases that were eradicated. - bit of nonsense, it just reveals your true racism.

It is money that counts for the Abbott Government. They do not care about ethics and morals. Otherwise they would not be locking up kids on Manus Island and Nauru. Abbott is also sending political refugees to Cambodia which is led by an ex Kmer Rouge dictator.

Maybe that is why he is cuddling up with Thailand considering its attitude to asylum seekers vis-à-vis the atrocities being revealed in Songkhla right now.

"The task of tackling human trafficking has to be jointly tackled and it should be understood that the problem did not originate in Thailand, he said, adding the Kingdom was just a transit point."

Thailand is more than just a transit point. It is a warehousing site to store trafficked goods until a sale can be arranged. It is irrelevant to the salesmen that these goods are human beings.

"It could even reduce the level of profits."

That line says it all.

If it is an Aussie boy's hair then I guess the escalator will need repairing.

Get well soon kid.

You are describing 80% of the expats in Thailand.

"We found the second camp yesterday evening," national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told reporters, saying the location was close to the first camp which lay 25 kilometres (16 miles) west of Padang Besar in Thailand's southern Songkhla province."

25 Kms west of Pedang Besar is in Satun, not Songkhla. What is going on???

It's time the UN stepped in and placed serious sanctions on Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Mass murder should not and cannot be tolerated. It is simply impossible to even comprehend how the Thai authorities managed to miss all these people which can only lead to one conclusion ... they are in on it.

Still amazes me how many expats here find this atrocious and yet remain living in a country that allows such to go on and profit from it. Remember your money fuels the system and if the expat community pulled out it would make news and maybe Thailand would begin to realize that this type of profiteering is unacceptable.

How comfortable is your bar stool?

If expats were to pull out then crime and corruption would be stepped up a few notches to make up for the loss.

what does maa lao mean?

Dog whisky (rum) as in it tastes like dog ****.

If it meant dog whisky it would be written "lao maa"

Yep, $200,000 will cover about 4 serious operations. Thailand is SOoo generous.

Has it forgotten the help it received during the 2004 tsunami?

Why are you guys helping each other escape the consequences of your offenses? Usually you are complaining about people who disobey the law.

Stop panicking everybody. All those spirits at Suvarnabhumi will take care of us.

Mind you, if they build the new terminal they will have to build more condos for all the extra ghosts.

There are no great ones. Their ancestors all left for Australia in 1788.

Greatest thing that ever happened!!!! Shipping off all the criminal to the other side of the World.

So why do you all want to emigrate to Oz? There are millions of you here. You have almost turned us into a third world country.

Tony Abbott

Well please, please, please take him back.

There are no great ones. Their ancestors all left for Australia in 1788.

C'mon all you homophobes - one of you can start with all the sexism.

Thai women smear themselves with whitening cream.

Contributors here are commenting about something they know nothing off and on the merit

of one article, Thai workers in Israel are being respected, treated and provided with full worker's benefits

and entitlement as any other Israeli or Palestinian workers,

Thai workers have reeked havoc on the Israeli wild life by trapping and sneering small

and medium wild life for their own consumptions, Thai workers have been smuggling Ya Ba

and other drugs in to Israel for years as they were never searched or even looked at,

the laundry list is long, do not presume that this is ALL ISRAEL FAULTS.. learn the

subject well before irresponsibly commenting......

1001 apologies. The Israelis are a leader in respecting human rights and their investigative powers with regards to workers's rights and human rights is second to none!!!

I do hope you are simply being sarcastic and are not serious in your comments.

There are beaches in my home country were you drive your car on there and park it at the spot you want to use

This man needs to do some research and get out more - stupidity knows no bounds in Thailand it seems

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You obviously come from Australia. It has 26,000 Kms of coastline and if you count the islands you can almost double that and many of the beaches you can drive on.

are these the quality fish I hear so much about?

John Bull should not be confused with John West. Two different companies. John Bull Tuna is canned in bulk for restaurant and cafes not found in supermarkets.

HOWEVER John West also use tuna from Thailand. I had some for my lunch yesterday.

Do not miss the village of Boklua. There are two ways to get there - one via Santisuk and the other via Pua. The Pua route has fabulous scenery and you will pass hill tribe hamlets, buffaloes on the road and some other not well known but sacred sites along the way. It is a very good sealed road all the way and there is a lovely little local run resort there in Boklua to stay in. English is spoken there and the chef is famed for his great food. Try the chicken Makram [not sure about that spelling but it is a delicious local herb]. The king's daughter, Princess Prathep sometimes dines there but that does not mean it is expensive.