Whoopde-doo.
Moral person displays their fine moral plumage.

We Australians just tossed out a crooked government that wouldn't do their duty to protect Australian borders. Apart from stealing 5 billion dollars to just waste, many of these economic migrants are violent and truculent, as we saw in the ABC film of the towed-back ones and the testimony of the staff at detention centres after violent riots, arson, assaults and rapes.

A thousand dead people at sea and all that cost - the direct consequence of Rudd pandering to you moral poseurs.

Now the Coalition stopped the boats, turned them around to a place they are in no danger, and stopped the ongoing deaths; so now self-righteous nitwits display peacock fans of protest songs and candlelight vigils. I suppose it will be giant puppet heads next.

We voted this kind of stupidity OUT of Government with historic swings against Labor and the Greens. Why should we celebrate your posturing and preening for the cameras?

<< Changing to community-based solutions would cost approximately $500 million>>

Only if you STOP counting once they are rubber stamped "Found to be genuine"

However, if you CONTINUE thereafter TO COUNT the cost of servicing them and their sensitivities, and the tens of thousands of others your weak-kneed approach will encourage to give it a try, and the relos they will all inevitably sponsor. The cost of a soft community based capitulation will run into the trillion$.

Isn't it amazing. Not a peep from these people whilst labor was happily putting people into camps. Now with the current government trying to sort out the mess they inheritated these protesters suddenly find a heart and a concience. Or did it just take them six and a half years to wake up? And where is the condemnation of the parents who risked their childrens lives on the journey and are responsible for where they are now?

Laura,
You know that the parents of the kids in detention should be charged with child abuse for putting the kids in danger on the boats.

I care not about your silly demo.

This government is stopping the illegal entrants, which is the important thing. Then we can close the detention centres down as they become no longer required.

Oh god, what is wrong with our young men today.

Air heads like Laura should be protected from themselves. They should never be allowed to trouble their pretty little heads with these matters. Their milk of human kindness would ultimately destroy them, & the Ozzie lifestyle along with it.

In the past these young ladies were kept too busy, barefoot & pregnant behind the kitchen sink, to get involved with things too difficult for them to really understand.

So come on you young blokes, get busy. Do your duty. You don't have to join the navy to help protect our boarders & way of life. You can do your bit by keeping the Laura's of the country contented & busy with things more suited to their emotional responses to the world.

Hell it might even be fun doing it, so come on, get busy.

Dear Laura,

I applaud you. You saw a wrong and did something about it. Rudd and Abbott are also Christians. Their behaviour is more common among Christians than yours so you acted in a non-Christian fashion. Good for you!