Is Renee Viellaris a prostitute, or does she believe this stuff?

Courier Mail readers love this shit

Today the Courier Mail decided to invent an attention-grabbing "them illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs and our dole all at the same time" story as the perfect antidote to a slow news week. If all the anti-Kevin petrol price headlines weren't doing the job, surely associating him with handouts to 'illegal' foreigners would?

I have to admit, this sort of shit makes my blood boil. It brings forth the ugliest side of Australia, one I'd really rather ignore. Predictably, the comments page was awash with barely coherent racist sentiment, baying for Rudd's blood and the return of our faithful refugee-hating ex-PM John Howard. Perhaps one or two comments out of more than two hundred attempted to inject some common sense into the situation. I didn't expect my own comment to be published (it was), and frankly I probably shouldn't have bothered venting, but seeing that article on the Courier Mail's website, with the motives behind it so transparent, made me feel physically sick.

So the Courier Mail doesn't want ASYLUM SEEKERS (because that's what they are, Renee Viellaris and the idiot subeditor who decided to label these people 'illegal immigrants) being able to work to support themselves while they are awaiting the outcome of their processing. In the mean time they need to rely on charity donations from the minority of decent human beings in Australia who are willing to see past the racist hype that this tabloid rag and many of its readers love to put about. If they work, they pay taxes, you idiots. And I would be willing to bet that ALL of these people, coming from much worse circumstances than most Australians are able to imagine, are willing to work harder and take worse jobs than any of the multi-generational dole-bludging bogans that much of the revenue from our taxes currently goes to support. Enough of the dog-whistling racist rhetoric, Courier Mail. We've heard the "Teh foreigners are coming to steal our jobs and go on the dole" line before. It's old, but obviously still appeals to the idiot racist bogans out there.