Lexi,
This was the first test and the Govt is out for a duck.

They may do better in the second but I suspect that they are going to lose the series, they may score a few runs but their batting order is poor and although it may just be strategy to lead with poor batsmen (either sex) it's going to lead to an early dismissal.

Of course the other team may not be better as they have some players who have a tendency to take their bat and go home. Their bowling line-up is not impressive either as some of them don't seem to know where the wicket is.

Dear Is Mise,

It's still another two years until the next
election. The games not over yet.
Lets just wait and see what happens. As you
know things in politics can change in a flash.
Hitting a home-run may trump everything. And
in politics anything's possible.

In two years, at the end of Labors term it will not be this issue that brings them down.
And do not kill this plan yet.
Howard faced actions in the federal court too.
Government is on firm ground, it only started this plan, an extreme one, because no other would work, not now.
If remember, just what a Federal election is, *it is the public, based on the promises made for the next Parliament, those broken in the last and a host of things picking their votes direction*
Labor has lost.
Already, but remember this, most Australians want the boats stopped, will be happy if it works unlikely to vote on this issue.
Those who are unhappy, anyone see that mixed bag voting conservative?
However be warned it is true, the refugee advocates do drive voters to the right.
This we must under stand, those kids the Shadow Minister whimpers about, will be the same ones forced to turn around at sea under his policy's.
Look at both sides of this issue, but stop pretending the minority can open the doors.

Though I personally think a refugee "swap" is a stupid idea- I would definitely not join the crowds pretending to suddenly care about asylum seekers out of nothing more than animosity over the fact that its a Labor idea.

Much like all the commentators who went so far as to condemn the assassination of Bin Laden- using the same arguments they completely ignored when Iraq was invaded- simply out of sour grapes that Obama's democrat government did it instead of a Republican one.

Belly,

Very few boats were turned around, and those that were went to where they came from i.e. Indonesia. Where the parents of the children would have been.

The vast majority stayed in Australian run detention centres with adequate health and safety.

This is another stuff up in a litany of ALP blunders.

SM,

Your claim to -
"Adequate health and safety centres?"
Is strongly denied by -

Australian of the Year in 2010 - psychiatrist,
Dr Patrick McGorry. He stated - many were severely
mentally damaged. He described the centres as
"Factories for Mental Illness."

And these poor people were left in these centres
for years, and years, and years - behind barbed
wire.