Sailor FNQ; after initially indicating support for what was recommended by the expert panel Abbott blocked Gillard's attempt to resolve the situation.
So Gillard did fail but the cause was Abbott's unprecedented destructive negativity.
Rudd didn't bother to try Gillard's approach again, he instead resurrected Howard's disgraceful regime.
Then along came Scotty and vulnerable asylum seekers were indefinitely incarcerated for nine years without a trial.
What we've done to asylum seekers since the turn of the century is an indelible stain on Australia's human rights record - an absolute bluddy disgrace!
