the "no advantage" thingy from labor was a rip roaring success - why, even the boat person who only arrived a month ago, was out in the community
frankly it would not look good if rudd got on tv and said the following..
"from today, any person arriving by boat, will NEVER NEVER EVER be settled in australia. people will be sent to PNG, and we will expand facilities at manus to take as many people as is requried... the message to people smugglers is that their business model is broken blah blah - but by the way, just in case we cannot fit everybody onto manus island, we will immediately begin building more detention centres in australia"
