Abbott inadvertently reveals driving force behind controversial immigration policy.
From Melanie McLuhan, Brisbane.
The government is in crisis management mode today after the Prime Minister inadvertently let slip to G20 leaders that the successful boat turn back policy was not implemented by cabinet, but by God.
“I said that I would stop the illegal boats that were coming to our country, and they have, thank God, stopped”, Abbott told an incredulous audience of world leaders.
Abbott’s revelation confirms the first divine intervention in any government’s foreign policy since the ill-fated instruction to George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003.
A spokesperson for God refused to divulge details of the intervention, claiming that the deity is not at liberty to disclose the specifics of on water operations. However the spokesperson reiterated that “God does indeed decide who comes to Australia, and the circumstances in which they come.”