On the theme of "cheerleaders":

It's telling to find the chief cheerleader for AGW, lining-up with the open-borders crowd.

Makes one think that perhaps bonmot was a closet "progressive" all along.
And all his noble talk of "the science " was just a cover for baser motives.

Stone the crows bloke!
Mark Latham?
Mate of our Julia, Simple Simon Crean, our poor imitation of Pyne Fitzgibbon?
Fancy introducing any of those dills as evidence Labor has got it wrong!
Are any of them members?
Latham is a grub with issues keep your camera away from him.

Lexi,

By posting here you are debating with everyone in the thread. If you post absolute nonsense, then I have a right to refute it.

The evidence on the web is clear as I pointed out. I have provided links to government statistics that show conclusively that when the pacific solution was in place there were only a tiny fraction of boat arrivals compared to when the pacific solution was not in place.

You have provided nothing.

The Pacific solution was expensive, but cost annually less than 1/4 of what the Labor government is spending on processing and resettling the wave of asylum seekers we have today.

What is next? are you going to claim that the earth is flat?

SM,

This is indeed a public forum.

However, that does not mean that I have to respond
to every idiot who posts on it. It is my choice with
whom I wish to inter-act. You are entitled to your
opinion. I'm just no longer interested in hearing it
or responding to it. I can't make things any clearer
for you. And if that upsets you Sir, well that's
something I'll simply have to learn to live with.

Cheers.

cont'd...

BTW: Your claim that the Pacific Solution worked
for the reasons you give is nonsense and is incorrect.
At that time, there were no major natural or man-made
catastrophes. The impact of the wars were at a minimum,
and there were fewer people trying to escape areas of
conflict and disaster. This you've been told in
the past but you simply don't want to hear it.

It is very convenient - to formulate one's own premise
to back up your own arguments. But it doesn't make it so.
News reports have confirmed these facts - and when
wars in places like Sri Lanka, Ache, the Afghanistan/Pakistan
border, increased, so did the numbers of refugees. Don't
forget floods, famine, civil wars, all these contributed to
people fleeing and trying to seek refugee.

The most recent unrest in the Arab regions, for example,
Egypt, Lybia, Yemen, Syria, are the future refugee sources.

The refugees will continue - so what's the Pacific Solution
going to solve - it won't solve anything. Eventually the
greater majority of the refugees end up being re-located
in Australia anyway.

However, these are arguments that you brush aside - and
continue with Mr Abbott's propaganda in the interest of
Mr Abbott's ambitions. You tell me that I have "nothing,"
and that I think the "world is flat," I seriously believe -
it's you that has a problem - not me. Perhaps your head
is flat.

Lexi this indeed is a public forum and your words are truth.
I think no matter how much work it takes the only answer is to avoid the type of insults thrown at you.
Such as the Gentleman feed on replies.
I find Conservatives to debate with here who need no insults who show glimpse of understanding.
On the night before Kevin 07 you told me you hoped I was right, I assured you I was.
I have often been wrong from that day, most have.
I may not live to see it my age and condition.
But ten years from now Conservatives will try to forget Tony Abbott and his blind to truth followers ever lived.
They will adopt much of Labors policy's on gaining government in 2013.
Asylum seeker plan first put together by Labor will increasingly be used all over the world.
Until action is taken to fix the problem in country's these folk flee.
Climate change by then will be supported by both sides.
Abbott in far less than 2 years may be replaced because this cuddle the greens greed in wanting government has exposed him to true Conservatives.
Ignore the trolls you told me, maybe just a thought, why talk to a brick wall?