Thomas Keneally: What is happening RIGHT NOW to refugees in detention centres, in community, in Nauru and Manus Island? Were spending a great fortune in serving our stirred-up feelings that they must be locked away, theyre an explosive quantity, theyre illegal, etc. So, not only are we indulging an ethnic hysteria fantasy, were spending part of the inheritance of our children in doing it. ABC interview 24/10/2013 The true measure of the moral level of a society is how it treats the most vulnerable people. Few are as vulnerable as those who have fled to Australia in terror and are locked away without charge, their terrible fate veiled in secrecy. We may not be able to do much, beyond lamenting, about North Korean prisons. But we can do a great deal about severe human rights violations right within reach. Noam Chomsky, Message to the Tamil Refugee Council in Australia
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:45:37 +0000
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