Lexi,

It is very seldom that labor has done anything worth praise.

I take it that Lexi and Dorothy support the PNG deal?

Note that it would not have been necessary if Krudd hadn't dismantled the Pacific solution. Krudd had 4 people in detention when he came to power in 2007.

Lexi in that post , from Shadow Minister the very heart of Liberalisms decent can be seen.
No! I am not taunting the man.
Give him his due, SM is the norm ,the standard issue Liberal minister of our time.
Riding the manufactured fire dragon of boat people till it died under them.
Then demanding we not see how the dragon died but how it came in to being.
Uncaring for this country yet they claim sainthood, for standing against any resolution of the problem.
We are about to see the childish negativity play a roll in reforming Liberalism.
How good is that?
Both party,s bought to reforms in just a month.
We too, will see squirming retractions post election, from those who thought negativity was the only plan they need.

Paul,

Failed English did you? Since It was a question I posed not a statement it is not possible to get it wrong.

Secondly, whenever you take a Labor politician at his word you will get it wrong, pretty much as Brown Eyed Bob did when they entered the alliance with Labor.

So how do you feel about the Greens being part of an alliance that deals with refugees far more harshly than the coalition ever did, or any signatory to the UNHCR charter?

SM, good to hear from you on this bright Sunday morning, although I would have thought you may have been in Church with the Mad Monk praying for some new policy inspiration. You can say I failed English but the conservatives have failed Australia with their one liner of "We'll turn back the boats". The only boat towing to be done now is Tony Boloney and his motley crew of half wits, we should tell them they are going to be towed to the edge of the Earth where they will all fall off, after all they are believers in flat Earth policies.
Rudd has gazumped Abbott in one play of the cards. The conservatives inhuman policy has been trumped, Abbott though he had Labor in a corner, but Kev's hit the Bully Boy right between the eyes with his new policy. There are some who see this as inhuman, who would like to be shipped off to PNG, not me. It is presented as a viable deterrent. What was the alternative continue to allow innocent people to drown at sea.

@Paul 1405

<< It is presented as a viable deterrent. What was the alternative continue to allow innocent people to drown at sea>>

I dare you --I double dare you Paul to stand-up at your next Green party meeting and make that declaration.

Bet you'll be cat called and frog marched out.

(pretty please, can I come along and watch-I'll sit on the side & just watch the kerfuffle, I promiiiise)

SPQR, you are confusing the democratic Greens who allow differing opinions to the big two who allow little in the way of debate within, who impose the party policy from above on the rank and file.
To late me olde salt: "It is presented as a viable deterrent. What was the alternative continue to allow innocent people to drown at sea"
I have put my view forward to 2 MP's and several party members, didn't get cat called or frog marched out. Will bring it up at a candidate launch I'm attending this morning as well.
Now on the other hand if I was a Liberal Party member and questioned the Mad Monk's "I'll turn back the boats" policy, no doubt I would have been sent off to the Inquisition as a blasphemer and burnt at the stake. I think I would prefer the cat calls and frog marching.