Opposition leader Tony Abbott and Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison announced the Coalition's boat policy fact by fact Thursday, July 25, 2013 in Brisbane, News Corp Australia newspapers say.

Mr Morrison told the newspaper that the announcement was primarily aimed to announce Coalition's solid policy on boat-riding asylum seekers.

Coalition will allow a three-star general to work with the party in its aim to capture and stop people smugglers, that is, if they win the election.

The three-star-general will lead a taskforce called Operation Sovereign Borders 100 days after the Coalition wins the election. The taskforce will be supervised by cabinet's national Security Council.

Mr Morrison said, "When I say we need to go to war on people smugglers, this is about using the discipline and focus that accompanies military operations to make sure we throw everything we have at this problem. We do it in a co-ordinated way and can respond quickly and decisively to whatever comes back at us."

The Coalition's announcement is an answer to the Australian Labor Party's announcement of its own boat policy which entails that people arriving by boat will be refused residence in the country. Asylum seekers will be taken under custody to Manus Island for review and processing of their asylum status. When their refugee status is approved, they will be routed to PNG.

The Coalition's announcement was keenly planned days after a whistleblower exposed incidents of raped and suicides in the male facility compound in Manus Island.

The announcement was also very timely as there were whistleblowers from the Salvation Army at the Nauru camp who said that the riot that happened in the camp was something expected as Rudd Government's policy on asylum seekers was degrading.

Mark Isaac, spokesman for the Nauru whistleblowers, said that men detained in the camp faced mental torture as indefinite detention loomed over them.

In a report from Bendigo advertiser, Mr Isaac said, "These really strong men, who have been through so much, just get degraded and downtrodden by this stalling and this bureaucracy."

Whistleblowers attested that detained men were already having mental and emotional breakdown, "The mental health impact of detention in this harsh physical and policy environment cannot be overstated and the service providers in Nauru have been unable to prevent the marked deterioration in health and wellbeing."

"We have witnessed a man scrambling in the dirt, suffering a psychotic breakdown for several days without treatment."

All these disturbing facts were happening despite Immigration Minister Tony Burke's message that went, "I want people who are being processed to be dealt with professionally and with dignity. I do not accept that violence and vandalism of the scale we saw at Nauru was an inevitable consequence of the conditions."

In some other reports, another boat of asylum seekers capsized off West Java which left children and one man dead.

With all these happening in the wake of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's hard-ball policy, the Coalition might just score with its military-involved policy.