Mr Abbott and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison held a media conference today to say it had been 100 days since an asylum-seeker boat had reached Australian shores — and that over the same period under Labor there were 66 boat arrivals. With nearly 4000 illegal immigrants.

With an estimated average of 4% of illegal immigrants dying at sea, Abbott has already saved about 150 lives and is happy to continue this humanitarian work.

“It's too early to declare the job has been done but nevertheless we can safely say that the way is closed,” the Prime Minister said. He warned, however, that the end of the monsoon season may prompt asylum-seekers to attempt to reach Australia by boat. “The monsoon is coming to an end and traditionally people-smuggling operations have picked up at the end of the monsoon,” he told reporters in Sydney. Mr Abbott also conceded the absence of boat arrivals did not mean there hadn't been attempts to make the journey.

Mr Morrison said asylum-seekers trying to come to Australia by boat would be confronted with the same policies “that stopped all those coming over the last 100 days”.

Abbott can't keep his mouth shut can he. Now he has shot down his own thunder saying the monsoon time is always a time of low arrivals.

I was going to comment...but this cartoon best sums up yours and the govt's faux compassion-slash-humanitarianism:

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Dear Poirot,

Great cartoon.

It puts things into their right perspective.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds from those guys.
Still it's a diversion from Sinodinos,
and the other things they don't like to talk about
or answer questions. Just like the Knights and
Dames farce - another diversion!
And they think the Aussie voters are mugs.
And they could be right - they voted these guys in.

Dear Shadow Minister,

I certainly welcome fewer deaths at sea of these very unfortunate people escaping grave risk and persecution in their own countries. Who wouldn't.

But come on mate, you're not really about to tell us no boats arriving in Australia means none are setting out to attempt the journey. The difference Abbott has made is he has devoted far more of our resources patrolling our approaches and as an admirable result incidents like the Siev X are far less likely to happen. I for one welcome the spend, it should have been done ages ago if we want to consider ourselves a humanitarian country.

I certainly don't condone the mistreatment of these poor souls that occurs after we perform our 'rendition' to a foreign 'concentration camp' but purely based on the actions of the navy those attempting this perilous journey are now at far less risk of losing their lives that they have been. In my opinion this effort should not be diminished and be free from other proposed cuts.

He is not going to get anything over the Sri Lankan debacle.
Or the Manus isl corruption camp.
Maybe we could come up with an award for the biggest mouth, or shot in foot award. Other than that it all seems rather predictable. Lord Abbott doesn't make it either, Lord Clive now that has got something going for it.