Have you ever considered that climate change could be a big factor in delivering more refugees to Australia? I guess you would be better off taking things one day at a time Tony. A new motto for te Coalition " political points first and foremost " sean of shellharbour (Reply) Thu 12 Nov 09 (04:15pm) Toiling Mass replied to Sean Tue 14 Aug 12 (04:43pm) Starved? Julia's Laybah Pardy is a smorgasboard of ineptitude. Dr Faustus replied to Sean Tue 14 Aug 12 (06:02pm) I'm not sure what a " wingnutter " is - although presumably it is a jolly funny joke about Abbott's prominent ears. Yes,genuine refugees, not queue jumpers and welfare shoppers. Unfortunately, Julia and her mob (they don't deserve to be called a government) are not concerned with the difference. It's a massive win for Abbott just as voter tolerance of this issue reached breaking point. The public was sick and tired of hearing about asylum seekers and the politician who kept the issue alive was going to pay a price in the ballot box. Expect the Greens will continue to drone on but it is a party that sees political gain in more suffering, not less, as evidenced by its opposition to the NT intervention. The spin being put on this by the lackey media is interesting: Will Tony Abbott agree to the Houston panel's recommendations ? Given that the recommendations were the Howard Government's solution to the "asylum-seeker" problem and that Tony Abbott and Scott