In Communities polarised by influx of unaccompanied child migrants can be seen parallels with Australian Govt’s stance. It may be intuitive to believe that unaccompanied minors would be given refuge, the benefit of doubt, by an nation that likes to define itself as “compassionate”. So, why is it so easy to tool them as fodder for populist clap-trap and as meat for Morrison’s grinder?
Watch Tim Hawkes (QandA 14/7/14) in the section “Asylum: Operational matters”. At first he says
Just the thought that there are children behind the wire, it just appals me. It absolutely appals me. As a father, as an educator, I want to be able to bring them out. Any people who are being brutalised behind wire, that appals me. I don’t know whether we are achieving a great deal. Certainly, in the past, we didn’t achieve a great deal because most of them ended up in Australia anyway but, guess what, we brutalised them for five years.
Then switches back to the view from received wisdom.
My understanding is that some of them have made – could have made the journey to Tamil Nadu in India, which is only 53km away from Sri Lanka. That’s a pretty safe passage for children to make perhaps but certainly not a safe passage to move them from there all the way to Australia.
No wonder Hawkes is headmaster at Kings School, he is a very clever man.
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