Where to for Tony ?

Article in The Age today by Julian Burnside, QC

"Scott Morrison's calculated cruelty is his legacy"

"He proved to be a callous Immigration Minister, yet he is given another portfolio that requires compassion".

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And it was Morrison who delivered on the promise of cruelty. This sat oddly with his avowed religious views, and his maiden speech in Parliament, delivered on February 14, 2008.

Among other things, he said: "I turn now to the most significant influences on my life ? my family and my faith. Family is the stuff of life and there is nothing more precious ... For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social ? as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message ..."

He drew on the example of William Wilberforce (the great English anti-slavery campaigner). He quoted Desmond Tutu as saying: "we expect Christians ... to be those who stand up for the truth, to stand up for justice, to stand on the side of the poor and the hungry, the homeless and the naked" and was inspired to add: "These are my principles."

It is lucky he identified his principles so clearly, because no one would be able to discover them by watching his behaviour as immigration minister.

As minister, Morrison was more concerned to ensure boat people were treated so harshly that the prospect of being locked up in Manus or Nauru would act as a "deterrent": it had to look more alarming than the risk of dying on the sea in the attempt to reach safety. He was responsible for holding more children in detention than any previous government. He presided over a system that was calculated to humiliate, degrade, damage and break people. And, worse than all that, Morrison deceived us into thinking that all this was being done for the benefit of the Australian public.

Morrison's conduct as immigration minister is impossible to reconcile with his stated Christian beliefs. He visited the detention centre at Manus Island on September 26, 2013, and delivered a clear message that the transferees would remain at the centre until they went home or resettled in a country other than Australia. This stands awkwardly alongside a passage from Matthew 25:35: "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me", a message at the heart of the Christian teaching he claims to embrace.

All things considered, the immigration portfolio will improve by losing Morrison, who has shown himself to be a hypocrite, willing to harm innocent people for political purposes.

It will be interesting to see how much damage he can do to pensioners.

Julian Burnside is a barrister and a human rights advocate.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/sc...ed-cruelty-is-his-legacy-20141222-12c05g.html
 
Never mind TC, we all know fingers in ears does not work long term.

Indeed. Someone should mention that to the Liberal party room. There have been 15 consecutive Newspolls now with a two party preferred lead to Labor and the gap keeps getting bigger (45:55 right now). Shorten leading Abbott as preferred PM by an even greater difference (43:33 from memory).

Singing la la la with fingers in the ears is not the right answer...
 
Article in The Age today by Julian Burnside, QC

"Scott Morrison's calculated cruelty is his legacy"

"He proved to be a callous Immigration Minister, yet he is given another portfolio that requires compassion".



Julian Burnside is a barrister and a human rights advocate.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/sc...ed-cruelty-is-his-legacy-20141222-12c05g.html


So what would you have done Beanie Girl? Just opened the flood gates I suppose? Fly em in from Indonesia? Fly em in from Afganistan and Iraq and Iran? Tell us what you'd have done?


See ya's.
 
Indeed. Someone should mention that to the Liberal party room. There have been 15 consecutive Newspolls now with a two party preferred lead to Labor and the gap keeps getting bigger (45:55 right now). Shorten leading Abbott as preferred PM by an even greater difference (43:33 from memory).

Singing la la la with fingers in the ears is not the right answer...

Do what is best for the country not what is best for the polls. This is australia not a reality tv show
 
So what would you have done Beanie Girl? Just opened the flood gates I suppose? Fly em in from Indonesia? Fly em in from Afganistan and Iraq and Iran? Tell us what you'd have done?


See ya's.

Heard of shades of grey or is it all black and white in your world? Disagreeing with Scott Morrison means advocating opening the floodgates and flying pepple in from Afghanistan etc? Really?

Sit back and think of how silly that sounds
 
Do what is best for the country not what is best for the polls. This is australia not a reality tv show


I agree. The Libs just should stick to their guns. Spending needs to be cut, but if they can't do what needs to be done, what do you do? If they get voted out next election, then so be it. Let labor sort out the mess. I could see a 40 or 50 cent dollar, which would be fine for my business.


See ya's.
 
Heard of shades of grey or is it all black and white in your world? Disagreeing with Scott Morrison means advocating opening the floodgates and flying pepple in from Afghanistan etc? Really?

Sit back and think of how silly that sounds


So I take it then that you were happy with all the deaths from boats sinking? Morrison stopped the boats. How do you stop these deaths without flying the queue jumpers in then? Tell me?


See ya's.
 
So I take it then that you were happy with all the deaths from boats sinking? Morrison stopped the boats. How do you stop these deaths without flying the queue jumpers in then? Tell me?


See ya's.

Yes, I was clearly happy with people dying at sea, this is as plainly obvious as your intellect
 
So what would you have done Beanie Girl? Just opened the flood gates I suppose? Fly em in from Indonesia? Fly em in from Afganistan and Iraq and Iran? Tell us what you'd have done?

I would not do what he did, topcropper. I would not incarcerate children in detention and leave them with untreated sores, red eyes, constant coughing, stomach complaints, unrelenting anxiety, PTSD, under constant threat of being sexually mistreated, and with suicidal tendencies.

We would not treat our dogs this way, why treat children this way?
 
Do what is best for the country not what is best for the polls. This is australia not a reality tv show

You can only do what is best for the country if you are in government. Getting kicked out of government means you can do nothing - just like a reality TV show. And I'm not at all convinced that a Labor govt is "what is best for the country".

TA did this to himself - after hounding Labor over one broken promise he has now broken promise after promise himself and the electorate is responding accordingly.

In my view, the best hope the Libs have of doing what is best for the country is with a new Leader and a new Treasurer. At least then they may have a hope of purging the backlash from the broken promises and resetting the relationship with the Senate, which has suffered from a major lack of consultation from the top. Then we can actually make some reforms, instead of just talking about them and burning endless political capital, while achieving hardly anything.
 
Which promises has he broken?
Boat people stopped, tick
anti productivity taxes gone, tick
try to fix up the crap economy he was handed, still in progress
 
try to fix up the crap economy he was handed, still in progress

Dave, perhaps you'd like to have a go at explaining why Howard's policy, re: my post was a good idea? Liberal supporters are quick to point at Labor's $96 billion deficit, but not so quick to denounce the Liberals' policy, which has so far cost the economy over $100 billion and will continue to gouge the taxpayers for years to come.

Only one Liberal supporter that I have addressed that particular question to admitted it was bad policy, but he's been banned.
 
I've been traditionally a lib supporter and voted for this band of idiots too and I think super tax deductions are too much.

Brilliant for someone like me or say my parents who have SMSF but I do believe they've gone a bit too far.
 
sanj, what would you have done?

Belt tightening needs to happen, isn't that what all the G&Ders are raving on about.

The screaming rorters are in the sights and now resorting to abuse and hysteria to discredit the Govt of the day that is trying to fix things.

Does not mean anyone who is having a go is being targeted. It's the handout junkies that need to be curbed, along with the free loader que jumping imports.

Deal with the truth, not the blind faith of socialist do gooder rhetoric.

If the Australian media was on side with the Libs the polls would be exactly the opposite. How anyone can say the majority of media is backing the Coalition I don't know.
 
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