Rudd ahead on boats: Galaxy poll

A new Galaxy poll shows PM Kevin Rudd is leading the opposition leader on the asylum seeker issue. Source: AAP

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has refused to say when his hardline plan to banish asylum seekers arriving by boat to Papua New Guinea will work.

Sixteen boats with 1314 people on board have arrived since Mr Rudd's declaration on July 19 that new arrivals will be sent to PNG for processing and possible resettlement.

Repeatedly pressed on whether he expected the PNG deal would slow the boats before the federal election, Mr Rudd has refused to bite.

"It is the implementation of that policy direction over time, resolutely, which will yield results," he told Network Ten's Bolt Report.

"In the interim, people smugglers will test your resolve."

A Galaxy poll published by News Corp Australia on Sunday found people rated Mr Rudd better than Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at handling the asylum seeker issue, 40 to 38 per cent.

The poll was taken between July 23 and 25, within a week of Mr Rudd's PNG announcement.

Labor frontbencher Kim Carr said Australians had very strong views on asylum seekers.

"They've got a right to have those attitudes," Senator Carr told Network Ten.

"We are however concentrating on stopping people from drowning."

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said the real test for the PNG arrangement would be whether asylum seekers would be resettled in that country.

"I know people want to believe that this thing is the answer," he told ABC television.

"But the truth here is there is a long way to go both in the implementation and legal issues."

Mr Abbott said it had taken Mr Rudd five years and almost 50,000 people arriving by boat to support offshore processing.

"This government is all announcement and no delivery," he told reporters in Sydney.

"It's all talk and no action."

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