Yes I did give my preferences to Rudd in 2007. Sadly, as is often the case we had a poor choice, between somebody who spoke a good game but had no courage to follow on his rhetoric and a past-it and stale PM who did very little positive in his lengthy time in office.
For what it's worth I don't see how I own any responsibility for the current offshore processing arrangements. Labor brought them in under Rudd the second time in complete contrast to everything they'd argued for a long time and I didn't preference either major parties (luckily I'm in a seat where I don't have to) in the last federal election.
At least I'm not pretending everything is good in the world as long as people aren't dying on our doorstep. I can recognise that refugees are a global issue that requires a global solution. I'd be deeply uncomfortable with treating people in such a disgracefully degrading way if it actually did solve the real issue at hand. In contrast we're doing such things while reducing aid spending, increasing our awful foreign policies that cause displacement and reducing the number of refugees we accept. So we're increasing the refugee problem around the world that leads to scenes like this:
http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/r...aves-in-thailand/story-fnh81fz8-1227409783220
At the same time we're locking up desperate people in inhumane conditions. But hey at least the refugees aren't dying on our doorstep...