You will never ever stop people wanting a better life and that is exactly what most people were doing coming to Australia by boat, the PNG solution will sort the ones wanting a better life from the ones fleeing their country because of persecution because of religion/race/political views etc.

It may be a political stunt by Rudd but at the end of the day if it works - which I guess it will then we can thank him for that.

It should win him the election given that Tony's stop the boats campaign was so popular and one of the main reasons that people were planning on voting Liberal, that and the dismantling of the Carbon Tax (that has been axed too)

The Liberal Party will have to come up with some clever policies to out do Rudd now and it wont be Paid Parental Leave.