Opinion

So two people set themselves on fire last week

How is it that we are not talking about the two people who set themselves on fire last week? Please just stop for a moment and think about this.  Last week two people doused themselves in petrol and set themselves alight in an effort to harm themselves in the worst possible way.  One of them has since died and the…

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Opinion

What are we doing to people?

What are we doing to people?  The plight of poor souls who we have locked in detention on Nauru and Manus Islands is probably inadequately documented but, even so, we have evidence of the torture to which we are subjecting these men, women and children for the crime of seeking a safe place for their families to live. What is…

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