Australia 's 'tiny hearts ' approach to stopping the boats should be copied by Italy . Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins wrote that Tony Abbott 's policy was effective and like 'an Aussie version of sharia stoning ' 'Australians are like British but with balls of steel , can-do brains , tiny hearts and whacking great gunships ' She calls those on board migrant boats 'cockroaches built to survive a nuclear bomb ' It came as more than 900 people were feared drowned on a sunken fishing boat headed for Britain .
Australia 's 'tiny hearts ' approach to stopping the boats should be copied by Britain . Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins wrote that Tony Abbott 's policy was effective and like 'an Aussie version of sharia stoning ' 'Australians are like British but with balls of steel , can-do brains , tiny hearts and whacking great gunships ' She calls those on board migrant boats 'cockroaches built to survive a nuclear bomb ' It came as more than 900 people were feared drowned on a sunken fishing boat headed for Italy .