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Just pick up where we left off? ;) I have both open at the moment. :)

Yes, to their shame, Labor implemented it. I guess Anne Frank is admired because she did the right thing and just got murdered, rather than troubling somebody else to try and secure her safety. Bless her.

I can't see how you figure that. It costs us between $400,000 to more than $1M per year to keep an asylum seeker on Nauru or Manus. It'd cost us a fraction of that to keep them in Australia, and pay them welfare. Money is the last thing driving this policy; if you were concerned about saving...

Um, no, there are loads of ways we could take them in that wouldn't be violating international law. Such as let them fly in, and then once they're identified, release them into the community whilst they have their claims assessed. Most of the first world does it this way; it's really not that...

There's no point being pleased about these lives being saved unless we know that it's more lives than have been lost in illegal Indonesian hideouts, in other countries' waters after having been turned back, or when they are forced to return home to where they were being persecuted. If this...

OK, you can be a bigot and not be on the far right. Economically he may be more moderate, but I maintain that he's socially far right, more akin to One Nation. He's a social extremist: he's Islamophobic, opposes human rights for non-Australians (and even some Australians), opposes marriage...

He's far too far to the right to appeal to enough people to win an election.

He was much less likable than Darcy; more like a (somewhat) masculine Lady de Bourgh.

I knew him at uni in the late '80s. He was exactly as he comes across - a private school prat with an overly-developed sense of entitlement and a marked and barely-hidden contempt for anybody who dares not to have shared his privileges. I guess he'd at least make Tony Abbott look totally...