[John]

Hmm, you gave credit to the Howard government for doing good work with the economy and then you say the economy is good because we are in some sort of good economic cycle?

So are you saying that Australia's good economy is due to previous labor government efforts? And if labor gets in and the economy goes bad it is because the good economy boom has done its cycle?

I could just as easily say that the good economy is due to a good government and great treasurer, and if labors bad economy goes bad it is entirely their fault and nothing at all to do with any kind of economic trend..

Seems to be a bit more than a coincidence that labor governments have a bad economy when they are in power whereas coalition governments have a good economy when they are in.

For what it's worth I am 100% behind the Howard governments stance in illegal immigrants. I do not like Mark Latham's ideas of just leaving the door open to anyone as he was quoted saying. Once the word got out that Australia accepted any refugee they will come here in droves.