Shadow Minister is shooting fish in a barrel.

Australians voted overwhelmingly to destroy the criminal people smugglers' business model. Any party interested in representing the voters would have taken immediate heed and proposed suitable policies.

However it was only Abbott and the LNP who were at all interested in what the voters wanted, so they got the guernsey to form government. All perfectly above board.

It is only to be expected that those who were not interested in representing the voters are now on the sidelines spluttering. That they haven't learned anything about democracy in the process, or more likely despise allowing voters to have a say, is a monkey on the back. So be it.

Great stir Shadow Minister.

Now I've seen your trick with weasels, tell me what is your technique with wasps?

Some may like Abbott's policies, but it doesn't imply that it was the voters' wish.

In the last elections I preferenced Abbott's party in order to stop the NBN, not in order to harass ocean-travellers far from Australia's shores. The NBN was stopped, for which I thank Abbott 150 times, but the latter was not my wish: it was a frog I had to swallow due to Australia's ridiculous electoral system which practically only allows for two parties.

If people like to sail the great ocean in inadequate boats, they should know that drowning is a very real risk, yet if that is their choice then we have no right to disrupt them. If Abbott truly cared about people dying overseas, he could with half that money have saved 15,000 starving children in Africa, who would have thanked rather than cursed him.

The continuation of the argument, is that KRudd, Juliar and Milne should be hauled before the courts for negligence in the deaths of up to 2000 people.

While the left whingers like parrot and foxy feebly try and pick at Abbott's motives, they cannot fault the results.

Deaths at sea:

Labor nearly 2000,

Coalition 0.

< Abbott should get a humanitarian award for savings 1000s of lives at sea. >

SM, yes I think you’re on the right track. Although we need to wait and see…. and make a judgement on just how successful the stop-the-boats effort has been in a couple of years time.

We absolutely need to stop the boats.

Bloody hard thing to do after Rudd’s extraordinary opening up of the whole saga in 2007 and Labor’s hopeless filibustering for the years following that.

It couldn’t be done without taking a hard line.

Abbott and Morrison should definitely be applauded.

But, as part of this whole sordid affair, we should be hearing from them just how Australia is contributing to refugee issues. Our formal refugee intake should be constantly mentioned, as should our international aid effort. These are really quite reasonable contributions on a per-capita basis.

Australia IS doing its bit.

<< The continuation of the argument, is that KRudd, Juliar and Milne should be hauled before the courts for negligence in the deaths of up to 2000 people. >>

Yes, absolutely!

No deaths at sea, how does anyone know that. No one knows what is going on at Manus isl. No one wants them so where are they going to end up.
The Malaysia plan should have been the go. Can you rule that out.