A brilliant if shameful reflection on our Labor government's opportunism, Binoy. Many thanks for your description of this episode.
It was notable to me that you avoided any reference to PM Bob Hawke's tearful speech in the days of the PRC crackdown on democracy protests in Beijing when we showed uncharacteristic acceptance of Chinese students in Australia as refugees. Skip to the Mad Monk Abbott's and Morriscum's repeated labelling of Sri Lankan refugees as "illegals".
Senators Shoebridge and Thorpe's analysis for the Iranian player fiasco and Labor's hypocrisy was rightly your focus. Well done.
As you know Geoff, there is only so much to compress in a piece. And I could mention the 'Christian' qualification Abbott insisted on regarding Syrian refugees as well. That will be a monograph of despair.
A brilliant if shameful reflection on our Labor government's opportunism, Binoy. Many thanks for your description of this episode.
It was notable to me that you avoided any reference to PM Bob Hawke's tearful speech in the days of the PRC crackdown on democracy protests in Beijing when we showed uncharacteristic acceptance of Chinese students in Australia as refugees. Skip to the Mad Monk Abbott's and Morriscum's repeated labelling of Sri Lankan refugees as "illegals".
Senators Shoebridge and Thorpe's analysis for the Iranian player fiasco and Labor's hypocrisy was rightly your focus. Well done.
As you know Geoff, there is only so much to compress in a piece. And I could mention the 'Christian' qualification Abbott insisted on regarding Syrian refugees as well. That will be a monograph of despair.
No surprise Trump didn’t offer to settler them and their families in the USA like the Africaners.