What is lacking from this "bleeding heart" is any sympathy for the 200-300 people dying every year under Labor's border protection disaster.

The deterrents put in place by labor to stop the carnage of the PNG solution and Nauru were in place when the boat people commenced their journey, and not to follow through would send a signal to the people smugglers to start their grim trade again.

The Coalition should be applauded, as their interception and turn arounds have stopped the illegal boats and the need to send any more economic refugees to PNG or Nauru.

SM,

Brilliant!

So we imprison people in brutal ill-equipped concentration camps, fail to protect them...to save others from drowning.

Warms the cockles, it does.

Pull the other one, I'm mightily sick of apologists for the brutality of OSB pulling out this "get out of gaol free card" - as If Morrison and his supporters give two hoots about drownings.

It was all about electoral gain and appeasing Australia's xenophobia.

When was the last time you heard Morrison refer to one of these people as a person?

They're either "boat arrivals", "detainees", transferees" or whatever.

Reza Barati when straight from being "the transferee" to being "the deceased".

Dear SM,

<<What is lacking from this "bleeding heart" is any sympathy for the 200-300 people dying every year under Labor's border protection disaster.>>

People have a right to drown themselves.

Australia has no right to behave like pirates and "save" them from what is not just a risk, but almost a certainty when one deliberately sets out to the open ocean on an inadequate leaky boat.

The problem is that Australia, the nanny state, treats its own citizens in the same manner - it would do practically anything and at any cost to save people's [biological] lives, but nothing to preserve their dignity which makes this life worth living.

P,

Your complete lack of compassion for the nearly 2000 people that died from Labor's stuff up of a border policy says it all.

These detention centers, all of which were set up by Labor, are by international standards comparatively well equipped and run. The brutality is entirely a figment of your imagination. Every single detainee is free to leave at any point, but not to Australia.

OSB, and the turning back of boats, which you amongst many left whingers claimed was impossible, has not resulted in a single significant injury, and is resulting in the detention centers slowly emptying.

SM,

"Your complete lack of compassion for the nearly 2000 people that died from Labor's stuff up of a border policy says it all."

The esteemed Shadow Minister trumpets his "faux compassion" (ie, real unconcern).

"These detention centers, all of which were set up by Labor, are by international standards comparatively well equipped and run. The brutality is entirely a figment of your imagination..."

Wow!....my imagination is stupendous. It believes reports of an attempted massacre on Manus (despite Morrison's initial attempt at spin - too many witnesses) and other reports concerning conditions on Manus - and Nauru...where we merrily imprison children.

BTW, we wouldn't know about any significant injuries or deaths because of OSB secrecy...

Secrecy being a state which usually begets abuses.

P,

Your faux concern for the 2000 people "murdered" by Labor says to everyone that you are happy for people to die as long as they are killed by the "right" people.

Yes your imagination is stupendous especially if it believes reports of an attempted massacre on Manus, that do not exist, and leads you to say "we wouldn't know about any significant injuries or deaths because of OSB secrecy..." when commenting on a report on a death and injuries.

Really Poirot, pick up your game, your posts sound delusional.