Albozo has his work cut out for him.

First, he has to sort out Labor's trillion $ debt while spending like a drunken sailor, then keep his promises to lower electricity prices while installing expensive and unreliable renewables etc.

What this Fwit has done instead is to virtue signal by letting illegal immigrants settle in Australia clearly forgetting the 1200 people Labor and the Greens killed because of their stupid policies.

Pauliar,
The number of people killed was not generated by the coalition and was never refuted by labor or the pedogreens.

Y,

If you encourage children to play in traffic, is it their responsibility that they got killed. Note that no one died after the coalition stopped labor's human trafficking.

Dear ShadowMinister,

Death is not a problem but a most common and natural occurrence - people died before and after, everywhere, and so long as there are people around, they will continue to do so.

What did happen following the stopping of the boats, is that overall suffering increased. Those who would previously suffer only for a few minutes, while drowning, are now suffering for years on end.

Those who in theory are supposed to be "my representatives" acted as the last pirate, attacking innocent people at sea, including even children, boarding their vessels by force, kidnapping them and throwing them behind bars indefinitely on some forlorn island with no hope in sight. Yet you dare to compare these victims of the Canberra pirates with children who need to be kept away from traffic, as if you ever cared for them - is this how you treat your own children?

Kudos shadowminister!

In response to Yuyutsu- this sounds like the religion of "Kali" or "Shiva" to me- not that I understand much about Indian religion - life is suffering and people are happier when they're dead. Buddhism also says that life is suffering. I don't think that many people believe this in the British tradition. Maybe they do in your culture. In my culture I think that we are more likely to say "where there's life there's hope". But yet there are too many people in the world.

I think both the boat people and Australian's both suffer from boat people- and there are a three billion more refugee's to come.

India is a "great" country soon to have the biggest population in the world- more refugees.

Supply and Demand applies even to refugees it seems.

Produce less people and reduce the number of refugees.

"Turn off the tap and take out the bath plug" or "bail the water"? Those are the choices.

CM,

"yet there are too many people in the world"

Are you volunteering to leave this world early? Reducing the number by one, me thinks not. In your world how should the overpopulation problem be dealt with?

Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy and about 30% of total resources. The developed nations with 16% of the Worlds population consume 80% of total resources. Any suggestion to get rid of the black fellas of Africa to save resources would achieve little, don't you agree. Then where do you suggest we start?

Dear Canem Malum,

Having a living, breathing, human body is important, but is only a means, not an end in itself. I did however find that the British culture exaggerates the value of human biological life: that attitude is not even Christian or Biblical, though some like to interpret the Bible that way.

There definitely are far too many humans on this planet: a healthy and sustainable number that would not require us to compromise our freedom and ethics, would be between 100-200 million people. Had this been the case, the concept of "refugees" would not even exist, nor the moral dilemmas around it.

The essential problem is that people are either unable or unwilling to control their genitals, procreating like there is no tomorrow, then they become greedy and claim vast areas of land, including a whole continent in the case of Australia, as the exclusive property of their progeny. That is an unworthy selfish attitude.

As for "hope", I know that it appears a lot in Christian hymns and sermons, and that we all (unless we are saints) indulge in it to some degree or another, yet Hinduism considers it an irrational weakness.

This is because hoping assumes a chaotic world, where luck, good or bad, can randomly strike at any time. Hinduism on the other hand, believes that we live in an orderly cosmos, with unbreakable laws of nature, according to which we reap what we sowed, nothing more, nothing less. Luck has no place in my worldview.