....He wouldn't know an effective policy if it jumped up and bit him on the posterior...

All except the VERY SUCESSFUL one his government of the time implemented, AND RUDD DISMANTLED Suz.

SPQR,

Well, ho ho ho....

If you're going to wave the "cherry-pick" banner *(your latest tactic) then perhaps you should attempt to make it relevant.

Why is it cherry-picking to link to a the "latest" media release by the ADA setting out the misgivings with Admiral Abbott's latest shonk?

That's ADA as in Australian Defence Association....are you imputing that their doubts are not relevant and I'm cherry-picking in highlighting them?

I certainly didn't have far to look to pick those cherries.

Get a load of Morrison:

"This isn't a military operation, it's a military-led operation."

What a lot of semantic garbage.

You don't have a problem with Captain Pugwash altering the chain of command in this grab for votes?

I see that Kevin Dudd's pixie dust (gained from killing the wicked witch Juliar) is starting to wear off, and that people are starting to see him as the phoney wizard, using smoke and mirrors to fool the people of Oz, and get them to do his dirty work.

Seriously, Poirot, if the ADA had said Abbott's plan was a good thing, would you have linked us too it? Of course you wouldn't have, 'cause you, unlike me and a few other liberal voters here, have a seriously one-eyed agenda.

And why on Earth would anyone have pangs about <<military>> involvement? For God sake the <<military>> has been running a 24/7
shuttle service from just off the Javan coast to Christmas Island for the last 2-3 years.

And as for <<a grab for votes>>!
I thought the idea of a democracy was to give the electorate what they wanted?

PS: Suseonline wants me know what detergent is best for removing cherry juice stains from one hands,apparently nothing is working for her ?

What the hell is the defense of our borders if it is not a defense activity. God I'm sick of lefty/green spin.

Now here is a policy.

Get the girls off the ships.

Send all the senior officers back to barracks, & give the ships to the junior officers & the ratings, they run the damn things anyway, & turn them loose.

The boats will be stopped in a couple of weeks, or less, without even committing an order to paper.

Yes, SPQR, I'm so one-eyed that I've been giving Rudd equal criticism.

(Dreadful)

Of course, I'm going to link to something as pertinent as the ADA going to the trouble to release a media statement.

The idea of social media (even in a shallow paddle pool like OLO) is to share information...that's why some of us bother.

"Everything" that anyone ever links to could be construed as cherry-picking if you're going to go down that road.

I'm not contributing here as a totally unbiased commenter. Obviously I have a viewpoint.

Real "cherry-picking" is presenting information which gives a false idea of the issue at hand.

My link pertained to the official view of the ADA.

Pertinent to Abbott's intentions, I should think.