Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the number of asylum seekers who have reached Australia by boat under Labor will likely hit 50,000 within days.
"This is a terrible indictment of the judgment of our prime minister," Mr Abbott told reporters while campaigning on the NSW central coast on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd inherited a solution on managing asylum seekers when he won power in 2007 and created a problem, Mr Abbott said.
"This disaster has flowed from Mr Rudd's failure to be man enough to leave well enough alone," he said.
Almost 50,000 people on around 800 boats have arrived since Labor scrapped the Howard government's policies in 2008.
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