I just read an article from 8 days ago when the West Papuans refugees first landed in Australia.

Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said:

“We have never listened to individual lobby groups about what ought to be done or people who, through the media, say what we will do.”

I found that really interesting and utterly unreproachable.

What on earth is the minister’s job if she doesn’t listen to the people of Australia? What on earth is her job if she doesn’t listen to the conversations in the media – a media that’s meant to hold the government accountable via the people in a healthy democracy?

What on earth is she thinking?

What on earth made the federal government change their mind about keeping women and children in detention? Surely it was lobby groups.

Where is her head? Her heart?

Damn she’s cold…