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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2008-07-30 09:58 am

More on the good news

Mandatory detention policy overturned

Immigration Minister Chris Evan's speech, giving the details of the new policy

Tampa recedes into a shameful past

Amnesty International Australia comments. (Although if you go there right now, you'll see the "censored" version, protesting China's Internet censorship.)

This will save lives, minds, and an absolute shedload of cash. The previous policy literally cost billions.

I'm still just staggered. Australia has been tormenting already traumatised human beings with this nonsense since 1992. It was a vote-winning mainstay of the previous guvmint.
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[identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com 2008-07-30 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Woot.

I wonder how long before the so-called land of the free begins even half-heartedly to follow suit...?