Abbott - Australia Unsettled, page-152

Seer, we've chewed the fat on the asylum seeker issue before and you know only too well that I support neither the Labor nor Coalition approaches to their management. Nor have I ever argued that Australia should tolerate insecure borders.

Systems thinkers always look to the root causes of problems and tackle them. 'Stopping the boats' is NOT a solution to problems caused by wars in which Australia participated; it's little more than a cheap political stunt requiring the trampling of democratic principles such as transparency in government and freedom of the press from censorship.