Context bloodhound
Jul. 21st, 2015 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyOne of my weird little hobbies is looking for the original context of soundbites and quotes which are bandied about in the media and online. Today I came across this:
I'll keep searching for the exact original context, but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a doorstop interview with Hanson-Young, dated 19 December 2011, which impressed me. (This media release is essentially a summary.) Within five minutes she's displayed not just compassion and a consistent policy, but has explained in detail the alternatives to the failed policy of deterrence. (Details of turnbacks - evidence of the policy's failure - will continue to be kept from the public. Meanwhile, a boat has been sighted in Australian waters; its Vietnamese passengers, Catholics fleeing religious persecution, are in danger of refoulement.)
"South Australian Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who claimed 'tragedies happen, accidents happen' after an asylum seeker boat sank between Australia and Indonesia"That was in Adelaide Now last week, but a quick Google shows that the quote - if it is a quote - has been gleefully bandied about as "evidence" of callousness, hypocrisy, etc etc, ever since. An Australian piece from the time dates it to about 18 December 2011. ETA: Seems to have been an interview on ABC radio.
I'll keep searching for the exact original context, but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a doorstop interview with Hanson-Young, dated 19 December 2011, which impressed me. (This media release is essentially a summary.) Within five minutes she's displayed not just compassion and a consistent policy, but has explained in detail the alternatives to the failed policy of deterrence. (Details of turnbacks - evidence of the policy's failure - will continue to be kept from the public. Meanwhile, a boat has been sighted in Australian waters; its Vietnamese passengers, Catholics fleeing religious persecution, are in danger of refoulement.)
