You have a very short memory, in that the Howard government had in place a successful policy for deterring boat people prior Kevin Rudd, better known as Mr Selfie who came into power and opened the front doors.
Maybe one of the HC members could post the chart showing the dramatic, damaging change when Mr Selfie came to power.
And GLUG for you to post unfortunately the Coalition didn't extend the same courtesy which may have saved a large portion of those 700 who died., all Gillard had to do is except that the Howard way was working and change back to that system, and by the way it was the Australian High court that threw out the Gillard-Malaysian deal, nothing to do with the LNP.
