ANOTHER boat on the way, another policy failure,\ is how deputy prime minister Julia Gillard characterised the flow of people smugglers’ vessels when she was in Opposition on April 23, 2003. Seven years later, Labor has been in office for two-and-a-half years, and the spate of unlawful boat arrivals has mounted to more than 105 vessels since the Rudd Government introduced its watered down tough-but-humane approach.
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