It's not just about boats, Mr Morrison
Since assuming his ministerial responsibilities, Mr Morrison has
overestimated his own competency and underestimated the complexity of
the human rights issues which lie at the core of the asylum-seeker
question. He has arrogantly dispensed with transparency, substituting it
with a twaddle of political slogans and herograms about how many days
it has been since a boat carrying asylum seekers arrived. There is
achievement in that, to be sure, because it has reduced the very real
risk of people dying on the open seas, but the weapon of dissuasion
wielded by the Abbott government, and by Labor before it, is a cruel and
short-sighted program of detention in foreign lands.
Mr Morrison's traditional response when challenged with error
is to deny culpability on the part of government officials, minimise
the seriousness of the issue or attempt to discredit anyone making
allegations. Yet on his watch, Royal Australian Navy vessels breached
Indonesian sovereignty on six occasions while conducting boat
turn-backs. And we have heard allegations, denied by the government,
that naval personnel deliberately burnt the hands of asylum seekers on a
boat being towed back to Indonesia. Last week it emerged that full
identification details of thousands of asylum seekers in detention had
been accessible for some days on the Immigration Department's website.
TONY ABBOTT OUR CLAYTON PRIME MINISTER WHO DOESN'T MEAN WHAT HE SAYS AND DOESN'T SAY WHAT HE MEANS.
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