still in denial Lexi. What dogma has done to your perception.

Dear rehctub,

Here's some reading that may help:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3886792.html

Thanks for the link Lexi, but you either don't understand, or choose to ignore, is that all the libs are trying to offer, is a solution to a problem that's simply did not exist, pre Kevin 07.

Any proposals put forward by the libs on this matter, are as a DIRECT RESULT of labor's failed policy.

Now I am the first to agree that the goal posts have been shifted post Howard, due to global conditions as you say, however, you must admit that it would be much better to make changes to a working system, as opposed to throwing the baby out with the bath water and starting from scratch.

Evidence being in the huge numbers that have ILLEGALLY breached our borders.

Dear rehctub,

Sorry but Mr Abbott's slogan of "We will stop
the boats," is a lie. He knows it, as does
everyone else. He says that he will send the
boats back to Indonesia. Baloney. Indonesia won't
have a bar of it and they've made that quite clear.
To both Mr Abbott and Julie Bishop. And do they really
want to antagonise a Muslim nation that's sitting
on our door-step with a population over eight times
that of ours? I think not. All Mr Abbott is doing
is appeasing the bigots in the community and like
Mr Howard - with his "core" and "non-core" promises,
after the eelection if Abbott wins - suddenly there
will be good excuses for why they can't "Stop the
boats," or "Scrap the Carbon Tax," et cetera.
Wait and see. All the man wants to do is be PM.
And wait if he should Lose. Heck, He'll be worse
than Latham. Mark my words. A breakdown will be
nothing compared to Abbott's melt-down.

The pacific solution stopped the boats, and removing it started them again.

Turning the boats around, TPVs, and off shore processing with no appeal to a court followed by deportations will stop the boats.

No it won't.
No it won't.
No it won't.
It didn't then - look at the what
was happening globally during that
period. It had nothing to do with the policies
of that time. World events tend to make idiots
of us all.