Labor, Greens and ABC must share boat death blame

If now is not the time for the politics of boat people deaths, when will it be time for the Rudd-Gillard Labor-Green-Independent minority government and its ABC propagandists to address this lethal policy?Former Labor Opposition leader Mark Latham told Sky News' Australian Agenda program yesterday that the onshore processing championed by the Greens was a "moral outrage". He said there was nothing compassionate about encouraging people smuggling. "The boats sinking and families dying is a direct consequence of the co-called compassionate people who support onshore processing," he said."I just still find it an amazing disconnect between the way in which the Greens and the Labor Left talk about this issue and the way in which reality deals with it.The Greens don't care.

"You can't be compassionate and you can't have a heart, you can't have a good soul. if you encourage people to get on boats that sink," Latham said. He has been airbrushed from Labor's history. There was a period when people did not risk their lives to come to Australia. Under the Howard government, the boats stopped coming. The Howard government's solution was heavily criticised by the ALP and the Greens and the shrill voices given air time on the ABC. Rudd, with the fullest support and assistance from his then deputy Julia Gillard dismantled the Howard government's successful border control policy. Last week, Gillard's second Home Affairs Minister, Jason Clare, was sworn in. This sinking occurred on his watch. Two boats have successfully reached Christmas Island since he took the portfolio. More than 900 people reached Christmas Island in November, that's a hundred more than would have been sent to Malaysia under Gillard's stupid inhumane people swap policy. Labor has failed. It has again destroyed a successful Howard policy and left the nation worse off. The ABC yesterday called those drowned in this latest tragedy "migrants". The Indonesian government calls the survivors "illegal immigrants". The ABC has it wrong, again. How many more deaths will it take for Labor, the Greens and the ABC to recognise despite the evidence floating face down before them?