The events of this week in Canberra has been on the agenda for about 10 weeks.
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Right before Christmas, the Liberals did everything in their power to avoid an embarrassing defeat.
Avoid is the operative word because defeat was swift and a result that hadn't been experienced in Australian politics since 1941.
The Medevac Bill scraped through the lower house with 75 votes to 74 votes.
The legislation will make it easier for refugees to leave Manus Island and Nauru detention centres and seek medical treatment in Australia.
Now the real fun begins. That mixture of fact and fiction. The interpretation of laws and impact. Whether more boats will arrive in Australia or, more importantly, if they will arrive because of this Medevac Bill.
If you listen to the Liberals our border security is weaker today than it was on Tuesday when the legislation was passed.
Tony Abbott summed up this message perfectly: "Under Labor, it's get on a boat, get to Nauru, get sick and get to Australia."
Prime Minister Scott Morrison backed up the former PM.
He said that the order of events was "entirely possible".
Mr Morrison said supports of Medevac "fail to understand that people smugglers don’t deal with the nuance of the Canberra bubble".
"They deal with the psychology of messaging, of whether things are stronger or whether things are weaker.
"It might be all fine and nice to talk about these nuances here in this courtyard. But when you’re in a village in Indonesia and someone is selling you a product, there’s no protections or truth in advertising laws for people smugglers.
"They just sell the message."
This scaremongering, which has also been repeated by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, is aimed at voters, not people smugglers.
Time will tell if that message will be received as the Liberals intended or if the message will be a nuance of another day before a pending election.