Milne is screaming. But there is one thing Rudd has learned (and Gillard too late), is that if the Greens are for it...it must be bad, and if they are agin it ...it must be good for the rest of us.
It is surprising, when all it takes is to grease a few palms, and this is something that Labor is good at. Gillard governed for three years just by bribing Windsor and Oakeshott. How come she didn't realise she had the solution to the boats issue? It would have saved her job. It will probably cost us less than pink batts.
Even with the number of digits between the dollar sign and the decimal point, the PNG delegation aren't exactly displaying happy faces.
This, of course, has now been made redundant in the face of the policy announced today. So clever of him.
Exactly. No one is going to want to spend the rest of their life on PNG It's a stroke of brilliance on Rudd's part, I have to admit.Rudd appears to have neutralised Abbott's "a great big tax" and "turn back the boats". An early election looms.
After PNG, Iran and Afghanistan will look like paradise.
I don't think he thinks any such thing. He will be only too aware that it's one of the most awful places ever, not just physically but in terms of lack of basic law and order, political chicanery etc. He has almost certainly negotiated this deal with PNG with precisely that in mind, i.e. no one in their right mind would be keen to be sent to PNG even temporarily, let alone permanently settled there.
Exactly. And that is why he has cleverly chosen it.
They would gain nothing by so doing. It has been made entirely clear that any boat arrivals from today have no chance of being settled in Australia, this being the obvious purpose of all the asylum seekers.
And from their point of view, why not? They get money to pursue their own needs, plus Australia stands for the entire cost of building and manning the proposed new detention centre, which will probably also provide employment for PNG people. What's not to like about that?
I don't agree. I think he has given this careful thought and has come up with a winning strategy if he can just manage to implement it successfully.
And that is exactly the purpose of Rudd's proposition. Makes great sense and will probably tip the final balance his way.
What principles are those ?It appears Rudd is selling Labors principles for political gain. Cameron and the unions will be gagging.
What principles are those ?
Labor has prostituted its principles to such a point that they are long since worn out.
Even Craig Thomson's former HSU credit card is in a far better state that what's left of Labor's torn and tattered principles.
More on the riot from the ABC,
How would you propose that could be done?
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