Greg Sheridan, in The Australian, 1 August 2013, where the title reads “Bleeding hearts ignore the complexity of the asylum-seeker issues”
WHAT are the real ethics of boatpeople policies? Malcolm Fraser, Phillip Adams, Dennis Altman, John Hewson, Christine Milne and the entire refugee lobby have described the policies of both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott in ways that make it clear they are to be regarded as immoral, unethical, bigoted, unfair, demonising and so on. Even the Catholic bishops, normally a sober body of men, have called for an end to mandatory detention of people who arrive illegally by boat. As it happens I knew both Rudd and Abbott for many years before they went into politics. Both are ruthless politicians, but both also are conscientious Christians and neither, I am certain, would ever pursue policies in relation to the disposition of human beings that they believed to be unconscionably wrong. Continue reading
