Superb article! I wonder, it our materialist comfort as a nation that makes us completely insensitive to the most vulnerable of the world, and so stuck up we only welcome migrants with enough money for the plane fare? How can we not see the deep moral rot in this? The boiled frog metaphors - that the slow ratchet of distasteful change can eventually lead a person or a nation to a state of affairs unimaginable at the starting point. It’s now clear we’ve reached that point in asylum seeker policy. Australia was once a proud liberal democracy that peacefully settled hundreds of thousands of refugees from all over the world. Now we risk becoming a rogue state in the Asia-Pacific, tearing up international conventions, defying the United Nations, home to a government breaking its own laws.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:03:20 +0000
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