Banjo, Abbott has introduced his military solution for 'if' they get into Government.
But no mention of TPV's ?

There seems to be a tendency here to argue about the wrong problem.
Egypt is in really deep trouble, they cannot feed their population, they cannot afford to buy
food or fuel.
The Nile can feed about 40 million people but their population is 83 million.
They are living on charity from the Gulf states at present but that cannot go on forever.

Either 40 million have to starve to death or 40 million have to leave the country.
How many millions will come this way ?

Egypt is said to be the first post peak oil failed state.

TPV's?

I always thought that stood for "Tony's Policy Vacuum".

(Don't mention the wa.....ahem, I mean "military-led operation")

SOL,

"Banjo, Abbott has introduced his military solution for 'if' they get into Government.
But no mention of TPV's ?"

What planet have you been on? These have been mentioned hundreds of times. The announcement of involvement of the navy in the day to day organisation of the tow back policy, does not mean that everything else is being dropped.

.....I'm no fan of Rudd, and if indeed he did 'break' the former laws re asylum seekers, then what I don't understand is WHY Abbott didn't reintroduce Howard's laws again now?

Suz, two reasons, one, he's not in government, and two, it hard to reimpliment something once it's been abandoned. However, as I have admitted, that system may well have been out dated by now, but if you have something in place, it's much easier to tweak it than to start over, as labor have found out

....Labor will not have TPVs because it was 'a Howard thing'

That about sums it up Banyo.

Bazz, birth control is the first place to start.

Rechub, well yes agreed, but that would take many decades to have any effect.
Egypt needs to do something tomorrow morning !
I reffered to a web site recently showing a petrol station totally blocked by empty cars.
Food & services are not being delivered because of diesel shortages.
Imported food is not being delivered because they have not paid their bills.

The revolutions started not because of Mubarik but because of the price of food & fuel.
It will be interesting to see how long a rope the IMF will offer them.