This government really has no shame.by Kay part 2

A young man has given up. He has locked himself in his room and is no longer eating or drinking. The men are desperately trying to get help for him, even the security is writing a report. Today is his fourth day without water. Dehydration happens very quickly in the tropical heat of Manus and his skin has turned yellow. Dutton's office has said that they are aware of this.

I have no updates on the young man who has completely broken.

I have called pollies. Dutton's office said that they are aware. The receptionists of other pollies take a message and say they will pass it on. I've emailed and emailed. There is nothing else that I can do. Hopefully, the men or the guards will break the door down and get the young man some help. I'm not optimistic that the guards will do no more than put him in a jail cell.

The man has an adult form of Resignation Syndrome. He is not the only one.

The men try to shield their families from the horror as much as they can. Australia has been widely condemned but Dutton etc is too arrogant and cruel to care.

The young man has been taken to hospital and is now conscious.

I often wonder, what is it about Queenslanders that makes them so racist ( not all, but certainly the ones we get in politics)\
they don't even have a large immigrant population like we have in Melb and Sydney do they??

Bob Katters grandfather was a Lebanese immigrant and yet he's anti immigration??

this Fraser Anning... who was a nobody, has now made himself known with his "final solution" speech

I had to laugh at Turnbull and Dutton who've both been trying to stir up racial hatred in Melbourne denouncing his speech...... appararently Turnbull has a large Jewish constituency in Wentworth

something to think about

Craig Emerson
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The bipartisan support for the @billshortenmp motion in the House against racism was uplifting. But I was shocked to learn that 22 mainly Coalition Senators shook Anning’s hand after his disgraceful speech.

Doesn't Crissy look cute

katter has always been weird

CONSERVATIVE MPs are urging Peter Dutton to seize the leadership from Malcolm Turnbull within weeks on a policy platform of lower immigration and cheaper energy bills.

The move comes as momentum is growing among MPs angry at the Prime Minister’s signature energy policy, with 10 threatening to cross the floor and several ministers considering resigning over the issue which has divided the Liberal Party for the past decade.

Mr Turnbull is promising to take a “big stick” to power companies in a bid to stem growing dissent on the backbench for his signature energy policy.

@ Mr Potato Head

I found the following extracts from a speech that has an eerie echo of Fraser Anning's. (the italics are my substitutions for the actual words used.)
3 guesses who said it, when it was said and which particular group of immigrants it referred to.

"I protest against “them” coming here and bringing their national grievances to disturb this land of ours ... to distract the workings of our political institutions, by acting together in separate organised masses, not entering into the reason of our politics ... but blindly obeying the dictation of others as ignorant as themselves".

 "I object to seven “of them” coming here to every three “European immigrants”, to set themselves in motion to extinguish freedom of speech and to impede the work of our free institutions".

I suspect you are right Maggie. My ex said to me that he has a lot of time for Dutton. I looked at him expecting to see that he was being sarcastic, but no, he meant it.

Sadly, Madara, it was indeed an Australian - Sir Henry Parkes in 1872, and he was talking about the Irish.

Xenophobia remains the same down through the ages - only its targets change.

 
 

  i take an interest but I'm no historian, but i should have remembered that .
maybe i should have just grown a brain and googled the speech.  Totally agree with the analysis .