Posted by Declan on June 16, 2006, at 13:58:04
In reply to Amanda Eloise Vanstone, posted by zazenduck on June 15, 2006, at 15:58:03
Go look up Phillip Ruddock. He ran immigration and was a liberal moderate (once). He outraged informed and sensitive opinion (people like me) by always wearing his Amnesty badge. He was responsible for setting up the detention camps. Commonly described as 'whey faced' and like Dracula.
But then the shadow minister for immigration, Laurie Fergusen, reacted to the freeing of Peter Qasim (after 3/4/? years in detention, because they couldn't agree on which country he'd come from) by saying that it set a bad precedent.
Ah, The ALP.
Declan
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