Welcome back to White Australia
Before our eyes, day by day, Scott Morrison becomes the hollow man.
His face tightens and twists, his eyes are dead, and his words strangled
with jargon.
We've seen this before. Remember Philip Ruddock gradually
turning into a stick of chalk, as immigration minister and later
attorney-general, while he plodded his way through the ''Pacific
solution'' and the vilification of David Hicks?
This is what happens to human beings who believe the ends
justify the means. Ends that are wretched will invariably produce bad
means.
When you peel back the layers, the oft repeated Coalition
justification for stopping the boats is that ''the Australian people
want it''.
It hardly needs me to point out that history is littered with tragedies when justification is hitched to popularity.
Stopping the boats is an end, and any amount of nastiness to achieve that is justified - popularity confers legitimacy.
Maybe, in decades to come, we will look back at this time and
regard it as one of the worst stains on our nation. More awful than
the White Australia Policy and up there with the stolen generations. A
time when our nation had a dark heart.
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