COMMENT Can the federal government tell us how many refugee boats have been located, how many people supported with urgent provisions and medicinal supplies and how many boats have been escorted to land? 

We need to know so we can be reassured that while we are talking about where to house these people, we are not letting the women, men and children on the boats drift quietly to die a horrible death.

It is very sad that the fate of the women, men and children on the boats continues to hang by a very precarious thread at a time when our government is playing even more political football with their lives...