Paul, Poirot,

At least you now know that many $bn of our aid budget will be redirected to helping PNG. It is not payment, but a generous gesture from a grateful PM, as well as building accommodation for those stateless persons.

Well done Ruddy for showing us your true labor values.

SM,

Congratulations! This is the first time you've
said something positive about Labor.
Well done.

Lexi, as a Greens member I don't blindly support our parliamentary leader on this and have said so. My biggest concern all along has been stopping the boats to save peoples lives. If Rudd is able to achieve that with this then I support it.
"I feel is quite unfair. First they criticise
him for not doing anything - and now that he
has they're still not happy. That's not logical."
Perfectly logical:
I never for a moment thought the conservative rednecks on this forum, or any where for that matter had any real concern for these peoples lives, it was all about power politics. Can anyone, point to an instant in time when conservatives considered peoples lives as being of importance? They live by the big lie, wars are fought for economic and political advantage but they cloak it in palatable term of being fought in the name of freedom and democracy.
I though, how appropriate to see John Howard sitting at Lords yesterday watch that gentleman's game of cricket, like Abbott, a real humanitarian.

Looks like the LNP's game is up. Boats do not equal votes.

The whole escalation of boat numbers and mounting deaths would have been avoided if the LNP had not sided with the Greens for a political advantage it has now lost anyway.

Turning back boats is unilateral and morally wrong and not in the spirit or to the letter of the UN refugee convention. Offshore detention, processing and settlement makes TPVs moot. Morrison has nothing left to talk about but the weather.

At my small village country school Abbott and his front bench, most not all, would get six of the best.
For acting silly in the play ground.
Maybe if Tiny Target Tony understood his histrionics have already cost him his job?
Doubt it!
The bloke is unable to change.
Question.
Do the Liberals pay the script writer? waste of both money and votes!

As the last obstacle to towing back the boats falls, the question is whether Kevin Rudd will honour his 2007 election promise to tow back the boats, or whether it will be left to the coalition.

Posted by Shadow Minister, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 4:11:42 AM

Egg on face Shadow Minister, but don't feel too bad about it, the conservatives have a long history of getting things wrong. Was it not Great Grandpa Shadow Minister (aka Pig iron Bob Menzies) who in 1938 after spending several weeks in Nazi Germany said he was extremely impressed with the "New Germany" (such as the abolition of trades unions, suppression of the right collective bargaining, outlawing of the right to strike etc). 1938 was a golden year for Great Grandpa SM the founder of the Liberal Party. When his enemies ridiculed him as "Pig Iron Bob", the result of his industrial battle with waterside workers who refused to load scrap iron being sold to Imperial Japan. Great Grandpa SM claimed Japan was only using Australian iron for peaceful purposes, ie to manufacture toys not bombs.
See, you and Tony Boloney are only carrying on the noble conservative tradition of getting things wrong.