Manila Downunder

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT MR RUDD - YOU SHOULD SPEND TIME

WITH THE PEOPLE I HAVE SPENT MY LAST DECADE WITH!

THEN SEE WHAT IT THE VILEST FORM OF LIFE!

Mr Rudd has lashed out at people smugglers and defended the Government's efforts to stop them.

"People smugglers are engaged in the world's most evil trade and they should all rot in jail because they represent the absolute scum of the earth," he said.

"People smugglers are the vilest form of human life. They trade on the tragedy of others and that's why they should rot in jail and in my own view, rot in hell.

"We see this lowest form of human life at work in what we saw on the high seas yesterday.

"That's why this Government maintains its hardline, tough, targeted approach to maintaining border protection for Australia."