Kevin Rudd's announcement in November 2007 that if he were elected, Labor would turn back seaworthy boats was defended vigorously by none other than Ms Gillard.
Ms Gillard also announced yesterday that she was in talks with East Timor's President Ramos Horta about "the possibility of establishing a regional processing centre for the purpose of receiving and processing of the irregular entrants to the region".
Yet this contradicts her own policy position in August 2007 where she vowed to close down all offshore processing and she maintained her absolute opposition to offshore processing - right up until yesterday's announcement.
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However as Ms Gillard was the architect of Labor's failed border protection policy and has defended it for years, she can't now have it both ways.
She either didn't believe what she was saying then or she doesn't believe what she is saying now.
The now well honed strategy for Labor's re-election is to hoodwink the public into believing that the Rudd-and-Gillard Government is somehow different from the Rudd-now-Gillard Government.
Whatever it takes.
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