Paul

<< It is not the policy of The Greens to encourage people to risk their lives in leaky boats to seek asylum>>
Spot on, with the operative term being <<LEAKY boats>>.The Greens would have a flotilla of Oz naval vessels --on call-- off the Indonesian coast to ferry them to Sydney or Melbourne (no detention centres under hew Greens!)

<<to accommodate people displaced by on-going conflicts and climate change>>
Yes, the Greens are maneuvering to have the definition of refugee expanded to include those impacted by climate change.

Doesn't that ring any alarm bells with you?
(We've had this discussion before, but you're none the wiser!)

The numbers impacted by climate change has been estimated to be upwards of 200,000,00. And no doubt many hundred of millions more COULD & WOULD claim to be affected .

This is NOT stopping the boats,or the peoples smuggling business. It's giving them more excuses to come here--the *green light*!
It's opening the floodgates.(so when you say: "I want to stop the boats too" you're just saying it because you want to be liked--one of the boys, ay)

Thank God the Green looneys will never be in a position to implement their idiocy.

Paul1405, You stated, " Rudd is making an effort to bring what is a terrible humanitarian problem under control."
* He created the problem in the first place.
* How successful has he been?

Nauru was dead and buried long ago. It is no deterrent, You lot live for outdated policies, i suppose that is all you have, saying stop the boats is not a policy.
At least rudd is putting real meat on the bones, and working with Indonesia, instead of shooting from the hip and going over their head.
Abbott is out to cause bad blood, and get us nowhere.

Reading some of the recent comments I felt obliged
to come back with a final perspective on the
issue:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/07/10/abbott-indonesia-and-the-cop-it-sweet-doctrine/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

Political commentators tell us that, "Scott Morrison's
media strategy is simple, but effective. Every time a boat
arrives, he issues a press release and makes himself available
for media comment. The line is always the same. "We'll tow
them back."

Examples:

5th July: "If elected, the Coalition will implement a full
suite of proven border protection policies including
turning boats around when it is safe to do so." (loophole).

9th July: "There is a clear choice for Australians at the
upcoming election. A Coalition which will act to stop the
boats won't give up or a Labor Party that started the
boats (sic) and has given in to people smugglers."

14th July: "Labor don't believe in stopping the boats
and have given up on our borders (nonsense).
The Coalition will not give up."

As political commentators point out "This is a fine example
of the superficiality of the Coalition's well-tuned
sound bites, particularly under close examination."

They confirm the fact that, "for years now, the Opposition
has escaped serious scrutiny on some of its more
outlandish policy positions. This is starting to change as
the campaign develops."

Rudd has found an impoverished third world country to off load asylum seekers,its called Papua New Guinea.
Any asylum seeker who arrives by boat without a visa will have no chance of being resettled in Australia as a refugee, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/kevin-rudd-to-send-asylum-seekers-who-arrive-by-boat-to-papua-new-guinea-20130719-2q9fa.html

Should be a vote winner for Labor in conservative working class seats in locations like Western Sydney.

Rudd's toxic new policy has just slam-dunked Abbott's best slogan.

So now we're sub-contracting our obligations out to our impoverished neighbours.

How classy is that?

Do you reckon all the over-stayers will be sent to Manus too?

Fat chance.