Desperate to keep the issue of asylum seekers on the agenda, senior Liberals have held yet another press conference to clarify the Coalition's position vis-a-vis funerals for refugees.
"Obviously we are well aware that some sectors of our electorates are suffering the depths of human misery when they are forced to think about tax-payer funding being spent on refugees attending the funerals of family members tragically killed in the Christmas Island boat wreck" said Opposition Immigration Spokesperson (and all-round sensitive guy) Scott Morrison.
"It was insensitive and badly timed for senior figures of the Coalition to suggest that it was insensitive and badly timed to attempt to politicise government facilitation of attendance of refugees at funerals. We simply didn't think about the human cost to the multiculturally-challenged citizens of Mossman and Toorak."
"After extensive tax-payer funds have gone into the detention of these asylum seekers, and then the further cost to the tax-payer of retrieving the bodies of the dead -well, we really think it is our job as the fiscally responsible Opposition to ensure that the government is forced to justify expenditure of every single Aussie taxpayer dollar that could otherwise be going to keep Senator Joyce in off-road vehicles."
Coming so soon after a particularly disquieting episode of Border Security, Opposition leader Tony Abbott joined Morrison in offering their sincerest apologies to any white people who had been further emotionally traumatised, distressed or mildly inconvenienced by their remarks.
As many as 50 people died when the asylum seeker vessel known as SIEV 221 crashed on rocks and broke apart off Christmas Island's Rocky Point in December last year.
The grieving refugees, grown fat on the tax-payer funded teat of luxurious mandatory detention, declined to return CisForCurmudgeon's call prior to publication.
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