Column: The difference with the Left is the bodies in the sea Read full column here. As I write in today's column, when Labor scrapped the Howard Government's tough border laws in 2008, luring back the boats, The Age cheered: ... a stain was removed from the soul of this nation. Now that more boat people have been lured to their deaths by what the paper welcomed, The Age deflects the blame: Australia's border protection service has been accused of causing lives to be lost by responding too slowly to the latest asylum seeker boat tragedy off Christmas Island. A former Australian ambassador has called for a coronial inquiry into the response by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. The Greens also want a more thorough inquiry than the standard internal review. Tim Blair puts it perfectly: That report from Fairfax (which campaigned for weaker border protection policies, causing hundreds of lives to be lost) cites the Greens (who campaigned for weaker border protection policies, causing hundreds of lives to be lost) and an ex-ambassador (who campaigned for weaker border protection policies, etc, etc). Now that weaker policies are in place and tens of thousands of asylum seekers are risking death at sea, they're blaming â¦ the border protection service. These people are incapable of shame.