"A test of wills and Australia has lost"

It is time for Australia to adopt turning the boats as its core policy

A COALITION government will order the navy to turn around asylum-seeker boats and return them to Indonesia in an assertion of Australian border protection, Tony Abbott revealed.

About bloody time for an Oz pollie to grow some. Long overdue, if I were in Oz, a pollie that would get my vote.

It's immoral because it will put at risk the lives of navy personnel and asylum seekers

Meanwhile the hand-wringers want open borders. Nothing immoral in returning illegals and I'm sure the Navy will look after their own. IMHO, any complainers should be deck cargo on the boats returning the illegals to where they came from.