Yes P,

That's what I said Work it out.

Still no reply on Labor paying people smugglers? I guess your sanctimonious argument has collapsed.

We now know that Labor was also handing money over - to the wrong people! And the boats kept coming. At least the Coalition knows who to pay.

What do you want me to say, SM?

That it's better to pay for intelligence and stop the boats embarking in the first place than playing ping pong with them on the open sea, stuffing cash in their pockets and setting them adrift when they run out of fuel?

Here's a detailed account of what allegedly took place on the boat concerned...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/indonesian-documents-detail-boat-turnback-and-alleged-payments/6551472

One thing is clear - the boats have not stopped - despite Australia jettisoning the last remnants of its humanity. Imagine, all that psychological torture and physical degradation in the camps, all the "goodness knows what hanky-panky" on the high seas - and still the boats come.

Paul1405 - You are delusional if you think posting part of a sentence is as you put it quote "my quoting of you was correct, and it showed your total lack of humanity, wriggle all you like."

What you are saying is it is okay to cherry pick out the parts of something to suit your agenda even though by doing that the whole context in which something was posted is askew.

Taking your statement into account I will take anything you Quote from other sources as suspect to errors or a blatant lie by you.

You further show your lack of diligence by attributing a post by another person to me.
To quote you "Philip S, no egg on my face, I am no Labor supporter, and have little regard for Silly Billy, or his predecessors, on this matter. I am a fully paid up member of The NSW Greens. Since Rudd, nothing Labor does surprises me. Before the last election I regularly said on here Australia needed a dose of Abbottism."
Please be so kind as to show me where I made any comments like that to you or any others

P,

At least now we have established that you are in favour of paying people smugglers, however, I am interested in how you know what the smugglers were allegedly paid for in each case. Given that you only have the reports from the people smugglers that in the past have been shown to be wrong.

"Bill Shorten is being warned against pursuing the “confected outrage” at claims of cash payments to people-smugglers amid signs that Labor used similar ­tactics to disrupt the passage of asylum-seekers."

Besides, here is proof of Shorten's corruption

http://money.images3.org/images/gallery/uploads_big/money/A-pile-of-money-wallpaper-721.jpg

Poirot - They may still be coming in small numbers but it will be no where new 50,000 plus welfare for lifers under Dudd and Dillard.