Coalition policy
Reintroduce temporary protection visas, which were issued to people classified as refugees and allowed them to live and work in Australia for up to 3 years. They are then required to reapply for successive visas for the right to stay, with permission depending on conditions in their homeland.
"Boost" offshore processing.
Turn back the boats, "where it is safe to do so".
Humanitarian intake of 13,750 a year including 11,000 reserved for offshore applicants.
Operation Sovereign Borders, announced on July 25, 2013, led by a military commander with a three star ranking, who reports directly to the Immigration Minister. It is aimed at "streamlining" decision-making on border security into a single command structure.
Operation Sovereign Borders will be directed by a joint agency taskforce, involving all agencies who are involved in border security.
In first 100 days of a Coalition government, Operation Sovereign Borders will establish a headquarters and create a joint agency taskforce; finalise and issue protocols for operation to turn back boats; increase capacity at offshore processing centres; lease and deploy additional boats to relieve patrol vessels.
The Coalition has indicated it may keep some elements of Labor's new PNG policy, but has not specified which aspects.

The thread contains the very word that any politician must instill into the electorate if he or she is going to ingratiate themselves to the point where they will obtain the power they crave and hold onto that power. Menzies had it for a very long time and never lost it, Whitlam got it and quickly lost it, Hawke had more than most and Gillard lost it and could never get it back. That comodity is TRUST.
The simple fact is at the moment the electorate tends to trust Rudd, and distrusts Abbott, they are more likely to trust Turnbull before they will trust Abbott.
The turn around for Labor was instantaneous. it had nothing to do with policy but everything to do with trust. The coalition are confronted with a real dilemma their man Abbott is simply not trusted by the voters, but at the same time they have an alternative waiting in the wings, Malcolm Turnbull, a person who is perceived as being trustworthy.
At the moment Rudd is making noises (policy) which he hopes will resonate with the voter, goodby carbon tax, hallo PNG and in my view its working for Labor. There must be many within the Liberal Party that are "concerned" about Mr Abbott and when your comrades become "concerned" about you, look out, the knives are not that far away.

Belly, another close second to a lie, is an unexplained truth.

Rudd has told us little about how much PNG is costing us, as no doubt, PNG are only supplying from the ground below, as we are funding from the ground up.

Another issue is that Rudd has simply created another Christmas Island in my view, as we, the Australian tax payer will no doubt be funding the bills, and I can see the locals saying something like, why do these people get looked after, when we live in poverty?

But still the biggest MONKEY on Rudds back, is the FACT that no matter what he, or Tony Abbott for tha matter do about fixing the illegals problem, it's only ever going to be a fix for a problem HE, Kevin Rudd CREATED and the billions he and his on again, off again government have wasted will never ever be returned.

So anyone of the age of 40+, is unlikely to ever see fully funded services in their workinglife, despite paying their taxes for services they have contributed to, and quite rightly deserve.

This is why I say Kevin Rudd has not earned the right to govern our coumtry, as many will take his legacy to their graves.

Saltpetre,

The Australian Defence Association appears to have some problems with the "harp seal's" plan to militarise our borders against unarmed refugees.

http://ada.asn.au/commentary/formal-comment/2013/oppositions-plan-to-combat-people-smuggling.html

They see something amiss with injecting party-politics into military operations...as in ".....A bedrock Westminster-system convention to keep the "gun out of our politics" (as in all liberal democracies) means it is necessary to keep party-politics out of our military....."

So we have both parties coming up with "solutions" which are sick, sick, sick.

@Poirot,

<<They see something amiss with injecting party-politics into military operations...as in ".....>>

I am sure that if little Willy down the street claimed Abbot scared his pet mouse, Poirot would cherry pick it as a good reason why Abbott shouldn't be PM.

No Saltpetre, I don't think Rudd (or anyone else) is the Messiah.
I don't vote for either of the major parties!

I just think that Abbott would absolutely be the worst choice to govern.
His latest mad plan to have the navy tow back the boat people is just laughable.
He wouldn't know an effective policy if it jumped up and bit him on the posterior...