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Those happened when he was Minister for the Environment you goose.

Is there anything particular about his tenure we're supposed to evaluate? He seems competent without being extraordinary generally.

Oh, ignore the first Costello.

He did not stop the boats and every leak and every rumour regarding the topic suggests he was constantly wishing to increase expenditure and Costello was continually frustrated by Costello. People often cite his gun law reforms as examples of leadership, this is a fiction. Not only was there...

Examples of good leadership from Howard?

Everyone loses to KRudd, he is the man of destiny, he carries our national spirit on his shoulders. He is the once and future Prime Minister.

I don't understand your complication, we just don't ask for it.

He's a wonderful man Clive Palmer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-30/let-asylum-seekers-fly-to-australia-palmer/4102422

5 year gaol term isn't much of a deterrent if I'm looking at 25 years of malnutrition, corruption and dangerously poor hygiene in a squalid refugee camp in Indonesia.

It was tested, by John Howard, the boats kept coming.

Bring them to Australia and process them in a compassionate, humane way.

The department of immigration has repeatedly said that wont work.

When Gillard took over the leadership the policy battlelines drawn were on carbon pricing, mining tax and asylum seekers. The day she took office she basically repudiated Rudd's position on offshore process and spent the better part of six months talking about how Labor were going to fix Rudd's...

Lol @ Mar'n.

Anyone whose claim is determined to be unfounded is sent back.

A few people have said this to me actually and I didn't get that impression from Singer. My impression was that he ducked the question of offshore processing and said that he supported the policy because it meant increasing our refugee intake more than any other proposition. I think he also said...

Seeking asylum is not illegal migration you know that.

I don't think that is what you're saying.

So what you're saying is they should be brought to the mainland?