Robert, I totally disagree with the tenet of your article.

We absolutely need to stop the boats, regain complete control of our borders and exercise our international humanitarian obligations through the refugee category of our immigration program and via international aid.

The single worst policy in the entire history of Australian politics was Rudd’s unwinding of Howard’s border-protection strategy.

You’ve mentioned this without a hint of criticism and then proceeded to basically condemn everything that Labor has done to try and correct this monumental mistake.

Sorry, but I reckon you are seeing it completely arse about face!

Crikey, I wish that the Greens and their advisors could see fit to do a complete about-face on the whole asylum seeker issue, advocate a stop to the boats and concentrate their efforts on lobbying for more effective refugee-assistance programs via the abovementioned means.

The Greens condemnation of anything aimed at stopping or reducing boat arrivals is just so incredibly wrong-headed. This is such a crying shame, as we desperately need a party with sound environmental policies… which is not compromised by extraordinarily bad policy positions in other areas!

I also disagree with the tenant of this article.

When LABOR came to power they endeavored to soften the NAZI-style approach that Howard had, you know, putting kids in gulags, etc. It was compassion that led Rudd to do this and many people supported his mission.

Of course, his compassion was seized upon by the people smugglers who made a lot of money gaming the system. Rudd should have seen the warning signs but didn't. Then he was back-stabbed by Gillard and the faceless men.

Three years of chaos followed and now Rudd is back in the hotseat again trying to stand against the Murdoch Media and the Big End Of Town.

Rudd deserves to be given another chance to show what he can do.

We already know what Abbott will do: whatever Big Business and the R.C. Church tells him to do!

Vote for compassion! Reject Greed and Capitalism!

I see you are still pontificating from cloud 9 David G. Perhaps you should come down & have a look at the real world occasionally.

Rudd, compassion for boat people, you've got to be kidding. Talk about seeing the world through multi coloured glasses. He has more compassion for his left big toenail than he has for any human being. All he was doing was buying votes from the dills who think boat people are poor innocents, & it looks like it worked with you.

I have compassion, unlike you, for the people struggling after years of stupidity in mismanaged government, pandering to the smarties who turn up, hand out, bludging on our good nature.

If ever you do come down from that rarified atmosphere you inhabit, do drop in. I'd like to show you the real world, although you & your ilk are probably too blind to see what is right in front of you.

Rudd did not change any refugee law, why do people think that closing empty prisons before 9 new wars started has any effect on those 9 new wars and stopped anyone fleeing.

They are two packs of ignorant liars and so are most of the media.

Rudd doesn't face a moral challenge, he's morally challenged !

I am an open borders kind of guy. To me boat people have as much right to be here as anyone else. That aside, if the climate scientists are right, then climate refugees will be a huge problem, millions ? What's the plan, stand on the higher beach at Darwin and shoot them ?

I see Uganda took in 60,000 refugees or so from the DRC atrocities, we're really doing our bit here to help the peoples of the World.