Dear Shadow Minister,

If you and your party were that concerned about
the drownings at sea they would have supported
earlier solutions that were on offer by the previous
government. They didn't and blocked everything they
could for political point scoring. You seem to have
forgotten the carryings-on of Mr Abbott and Mr
Morrison during their time in Opposition. They
forced Labor to take the stands that it did at the
time, and now have the audacity to blame Labor.

The current Government is now in a position to
really do something positive and what we are getting
is human rights issues being totally disregarded
for political gain - so your concern (and those of the
Party you blindly support), about the drownings at
sea - have no credibility whatsoever.

Foxy,

I am surprised that after all the moral grandstanding you are still happy to advocate the worst treatment of illegals yet proposed or enacted.

The Malaysian solution had some major problems for the Coalition,

Firstly it didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of working. Even after the boats slowed subsequent to the announcement, the 4 year / 800 refugee limit would have been filled in weeks.

Secondly it was far worse than anything the coalition had in place and contravened Australia laws put in place to protect refugees,

Thirdly Juliar had promised before the 2010 election that Labor would never send illegals to a country that was not a signatory to the UNHCR,

Finally, now that Nauru was a signatory to the UNHCR, there was no impediment to implementing the far more human Pacific solution. Which the coalition has now done and stopped the boats.

SM,

Yar...and isn't it warming to see Morrison sitting amongst his chums in Sri Lanka.

(I wonder when he's going to order some uniforms and matching medals?)

Good ole one-track Poirot -you can present her to new information but you sure as hell can't make her adsorb it!

<<The first boat-- contained manly Sinhalese whom advocates up till now had been characterising as the oppressor class>>

Just an observation does anyone agree that there is a striking resemblance between Scott Morrison and Hermann Goering. Oh well, just an observation, could be wrong.

Dear Shadow Minister,

We seem to have vastly different recollections of
why the Liberals did not support the previous
government's Malaysian Solution. The following link
may jog your memory as to the realities of that
time:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-21/danby-liberals-want-it-both-ways-on-immigration/4155674