With thanks to Malaysian authorities and Operation Sovereign Borders the attempt has been effectively thwarted.

Given this, under Labor can you imagine what to again expect from a weakened maritime border protection policy, which is a crucial element and also enshrined in their Party Charter.

Hint, a preponderance of economic maritime opportunists (EMO) again ‘chancing their arms’ to breach our watery borders, followed by an indeterminate number of family re-unions.

Under the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd life-threatening maritime policy between 2007-2013, a reputed 1200 souls perished by drowning.

Chaotic scenes of RAN sailors, off Christmas Island and variously elsewhere, risking their own lives to save EMOs became a veritable everyday occurrence.

During these lamentable and unproductive times 50,000 EMOs reached mainland Australia, many of who today have still not been the subjects of rigid security clearances methodology.

An incoming Labor Government, I proffer, will systematically dismantle the great work performed by Peter Dutton, as it did last time.

It will take very little time for them to signal to criminal people-smuggling syndicates that, under Labor, a lethal and vile worse business practice has officially resumed.

It will not take long for Labor to add their ‘fingerprints’ to the crude number of current EMOs still to be officially cleared as being law abiding persons and of good reputation, particularly as it relates to the conduct of checks in their former homelands.

D J Preece,  Wollongong

$40 per day for a single politician to live on? Why not share the fun and experience with their family on  $71 per day ??

Doug Steley, Heyfield

What an Insult – turning the “baby boomer” success story into an excuse for government failure.

This was the view espoused by Tony Shepherd when recently interviewed by Fairfax Media.

During their lifetime the baby boomers existed in an environment of political policies reflective of  government of the people, by the people, for the people.

What did the Federal Government and for that matter state governments expect to happen with the introduction of privatisation and the catchcry “government of the people, by big business, for big business”.

Our financial stagnant inertia is not the fault of a generation of hardworking Australians.

The sluggish working conditions, poverty, and declining public health and education entitlements, are the invention of a political-economic hypothesis that “greed is good”.

We through inducement have been enrolled in a society where lies and deception are the status quo; a time where our existence is controlled by men and women sitting around boardroom tables.

John Macleod, Berry

Jail in Maryborough Queensland, huge employment boost in community, boost for jobs & suppliers. House prices through the roof, Jail is a Maximum Security Complex, and guess what, no escapes. I say “Bring it On”.

Peter Tornaros, Oak Flats

$38k per year income = $500  tax cut

$200K  per year income = $7,000  tax cut

Or as my Liberal MP once told me: "You must understand, rich people need more money than poor people because rich people have more expenses".

Doug Steley, Heyfield