Mike, the Pacific Solution with TPVs worked very well. See the graph below which only takes us to early 2010 and up to the end of June this year there have been a total 11564 arrivals since labor came to power now so that hockey stick is almost THREE times longer. The PS+TPVs certainly discouraged the many, preseumably welfare rorters, while giving genuine refugees a safe place.
and this one shows the annual figures up until about May 2011 (I think).
