Refugees: a blast from a not so distant past
SENDING ALIENS TO AUSTRALIA. CANBERRA, Tuesday. In the House of Representatives this afternoon Mr. Martens (Lab., Qld.), said that the Government's acquiescence in Britain's proposal...
Rough justice for refugees
For some time I have been posting specifically legal articles/posts over at the bloggy part of the Parish McCulloch, Barristers & Solicitors website. I cross-post...
Trust me, I’m Scott Morrison …
[caption id="attachment_26358" align="alignright" width="275"] We can be confident that Tony isn't demonstrating the size of Scott's heart, or his brain for that matter ...[/caption] I...
A charter city for refugees?
Here is quite a good article seeking to "reframe" the asylum seeker debate. It takes a reasonably moderate, non-hysterical approach. I haven't written on the...
The Dunera: kicking off an exciting life
An excerpt from the Dunera News. (for those who don't know, the Dunera was the prison ship on which my father was deported to Australia...
‘…all the way up through the chain.’
Scott Morrison was on RN Breakfast on Monday 25 November, hosing down the idea that the diplomatic row with Indonesia over past spying on the...
Shock! Horror! I agree with Greg Sheridan
I don't often agree with Greg Sheridan, and I certainly don't agree with the whole of his article on asylum seeker policy in today's Weekend...