Abbott tries to appease right with call for "deterring" migrants
Shadow Home Secretary said it would be “quite wrong” to intentionally leave people to drown, “maybe” we should increase patrols to save drowning people, but the key thing, Abbott repeated three times, was to dissuade migrants from attempting to come here in the first place. This "triangulation" did not stop the right-wing press from attacking Abbott and is a shameful policy capitulation.