SOL,

R said that Labor is not going to introduce TPVs, as to the pacific solution, it is more difficult to re install once labor has stuffed it up.

As to your comment wrt TPVs, the coalition has made is clear that it intends to introduce TPVs. Abbott in announcing one policy change was unlikely to feel the need to review all his policies in one statement.

Dudd in announcing the PNG solution did not mention Nauru or other detention.

Butcher spelt back to front wants to know how much, i say it should be sponsored from foreign aid money. This is a foreign situation, so that spending has to be justifiable.
Tents cost money, they can live on coconuts, who knows they might want to go home or take their chances with a spear.

Here's an interesting article.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/coalitions-tent-city-trip-funded-by-logistics-company-that-provides-tents-20130730-2qws3.html

"A logistics company that stands to profit from the Coalition's "tent city" on Nauru funded the trip of its immigration spokesman Scott Morrison and a journalist and photographer from News Corporation to the remote island to announce the plan.

The trip to Nauru was facilitated by Toll Holdings, which has multimillion-dollar contracts already to help handle asylum seekers and is eager for more business in the area."

Maybe Labor can "strike a deal" too.

The mind boggles.

@ Poriot,

<< "A logistics company that stands to profit from the Coalition's "tent city" on Nauru...>>

Still, it is a darnside better that a tax-payer funded entity like the ABC (and SBS) actively campaigning for open borders, and daily vilifying the Oz population.

In recent weeks BOTH SBS & the ABC have dropped any pretense of balance. They are both hard at it campaigning for open borders.

It is no longer *OUR* ABC, if it ever was, but more the Asylum-scammers Broadcasting Service.

SPQR,

I think you're working from an old script regarding the ABC.

Abbott, for instance has received just as smooth a ride there as he has in the independent media.

He face barely a whimper from the ABC in the wake of revelations about his having to repay travel expenses.

He was interviewed by Chris Uhlmann a while back on his policy for turning back the boats...and this interview took place on the rather convenient night that the harder hitting Leigh Sales had a "night off". Uhlmann kept hitting him with a feather - so much so that Abbott had to keep regurgitating (5 times) that "Howard did it".

I'm inclined to think these days that the ABC are behind the LNP to win the election, from those and other instances

Apparently Morrison remarked that journalist Jonathan Swan's report on Toll was "sour grapes" - because he didn't get an invite.

Yep, Morrison is representative of our pollies these days - race to the bottom and all that.

@Poriot,

No. I’m very much reading from the lastest ABC script.

I suggest for starters --anyone with an open mind (which kinda leaves you out!) have a listen to:

1)Jonathan Green's --Sunday Extra (last Sunday).Un-beeeeeeeeeeeeeliiiiiiiiiiiiievably bias! I am sure I've heard somewhere that the govt is not permitted to show the faces of asylum scammers when it runs adverts etc, as part of the provisions of one of the convenants we've signed.

Yet, there Jonahan Green with his tame academic in tow citing the blurring of facial features in the adverts as evidence we were trying to objectify them, depersonalise them, and how characteristic it was.... yada yada yada.I would love --if only I had the time -- to go through the transcript of his show --it was absolutely dripping with bias

2) Have a look at Fran Kelly's - The Breakfast Program, last interview with SCot Morrison. In the course of 3 minutes she morphed from a disinterested interviwer to a raving advocate.

But as I said before, my observations would be all lost on you --you're all for such *educating* of the public!