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Australia’s Torture Camps

Australia’s Torture Camps

I faced worse mental torture compared to the intelligence prisons in Iran. We have been under severe mental torture for three years. We see it clearly and exactly: there is no way behind—to return is a torture—and there is nothing in front of us but hell. There is no...
Why calls for compassion for refugees don’t work

Why calls for compassion for refugees don’t work

It’s easy to disparage those calling for a more humane approach to the refugee crisis. There’s The Spectator‘s line about moral grandstanding and, locally, Chris Kenny’s call for sobriety in The Australian: ‘Emotion, moral vanity,...
Why we aren’t more shocked by Nauru revelations

Why we aren’t more shocked by Nauru revelations

In his revolutionary pamphlet, ‘Rights of Man’, Thomas Paine responded to Edmund Burke’s criticism of the Parisian masses. They had razed the Bastille, killed a number of men they suspected of betraying them, put their heads on spikes and paraded...
The gratuitous cruelty of Scott Morrison

The gratuitous cruelty of Scott Morrison

It’s reflective of just how punitive Australia’s refugee policy has become that the government still has the ability to horrify thinking Australians this long after Kevin Rudd announced his PNG Solution. At the time it seemed the lowest ebb in what has been a very...