Dear Individual,

Well said. We can only hope that
consensus can eventually be reached by both political parties
on this issue.
It all begins in Parliament on Monday 19th March.

Dear Belly,

If only ... one can live and hope.
Fingers-crossed that there will be enough members
in the political parties who will resolve to bring
a solution to this complex issue. We'll have to wait
and see what develops. Whether the national interest
can outweigh party politics.

BTW - nobody has mentioned -
Vale - Margaret Whitlam. A lady who was in the public
eye for several decades. She was a household identity
in her own right and was greatly admired by so
many people. As she once said:

"It's absurd, just because you're a politician's wife,
to sit around like a dummy saying nothing, or echoing
him. You might as well give up living...
I came to represent all the ungainly people, the
too-tall ones, the too-fat ones, and the housebound,
as I had been, who'd never get the chance to go to
China or Buckingham Palace, and who experienced it all
through me."

She'll be missed.

While the pacific solution was expensive, it cost a tiny fraction of what the government's on shore tsunami of asylum seekers is costing now.

As Labor is in power, it is their responsibility to find a solution. The coalition has offered a compromise, yet the Labor government has not moved one Iota.

I invite readers to truly look at the post of Shadow Minister above mine.
Surely it avoids truth.
Labor has moved its position, in fact it has been all over the shop.
But its latest move has been an attempt to do very nearly what my last post said.
It offered both ends to this growing problem.
We should remember, harking back to the past, even highlighting Labors inability to cast off its mistakes, will not fix the issue.
It will feed Conservatives electioneering , but betray us all.
Worth consideration, a by product of this hung Parliament, Polling in the NSW channel 7 site is 84% in favor of towing the boats back.
Remember the manipulative greens too can isolate Conservatives by just giving this a chance.
As the QLD landslide is about to take place, and SA next, Greens inability to consider views other than their own , remind me in life you reap what you sow.
Fix this the public demands it, Enter office on a Confrontational ticket and see support turn to mud.

Dear SM,

You're only proving my point. This
should not be a political game of "wedge politics."
It's well and truly time that a solution was negotiated
by both parties that would be acceptable to all.
Continual dispute is not the answer.

Lexi,

Labor is always calling for compromise, however, it always wants the coalition to compromise, and offers nothing in return. For the greens they were prepared to break a promise to the electorate, but I cannot think of one single compromise that they have offered the coalition since 2007. Every thing was take it or leave it.

Dear SM,

That's not true. From memory Labor has been willing to
negotiate and discuss issues to reach an
acceptable solution to many problems. However,
the Coalition under the current leadership has
simply refused to discuss anything. All they
seem capable of doing is condemnation and trying
to undermine the current government.

For example - off shore processing of asylum seekers.
Both parties agree that it should be done offshore -
but the Coalition will not accept any solution but
Nauru. Whereas the government had suggested -
Malaysia, East Timor, and Papua. Now who is trying,
and who is not?

The way that Mr Abbott behaves in a school-yard or
in the street - would be classified as "bully-tactics."
It certainly fits his behaviour.