I watched your interview with David Speers on Insiders with utter disbelief. Your attempt to explain the inexplicable and indefensible was totally unconvincing. Your colleague, Minister Dutton, commented a year ago that releasing detainees from hotel detention made sense, given that it was much cheaper to allow these men to live in community detention as they posed no threat to the Australian community. There is no logical reason to keep these men in detention. You know that. Sadly, the government’s political agenda, which drives this cruelty and total lack of compassion, seems to be all that matters.
The Australian people have now seen, many for the first time, thanks to Novak Djokovic, the cruel and punitive reality of the government’s asylum policy, and they are not comfortable with what they see. Many, like myself, are outraged.
We have a federal election coming up. Many of us will be working hard to throw out a government which is prepared to inflict such terrible cruelty on refugees and asylum seekers, who fled their homelands to seek safety in Australia.
The government’s actions over the past years bring shame on us all.
Mike Griffin
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