ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
EDITORIAL
Our Federal representatives have spent this week fucking around in Canberra arguing about deporting people and/or putting them in prison forever, while everyone else who doesn’t have the luxury of being a useless Canberra-based public servant fuck has to watch on.
Despite eroding freedoms and personal savings, the people that Australians have entrusted to manage their destiny are doing anything but. Much of this latest stoush is about whether it’s right to deport people back to New Zealand who have spent most of their entire life in Australia. For the most part, it’s probably bad to do that. They don’t do it to us. Not because they’re a meek or effeminate people; they don’t deport naughty Australians who’ve spent their whole life in New Zealand because it’s the fair and proper thing to do. They just get bullied in prison, then go back to their home in Lower Hutt or wherever.
The other part is about the government making a meal of their handling of stateless people in immigration they couldn’t deport. You don’t have to be a bongo-slapping leftie to understand that, legally, it’s a difficult thing to do: to deport someone who doesn’t have anywhere else to go. One solution could’ve been to just take them out to Balls Pyramid and leave them there. Short of just tapping them on the head or paying some other country to take them, the government was put between a rock and a hard place on that one. Some poached-egg eaters went to the High Court and got them out of prison, then went back to their gorgeously renovated terrace house and felt great about it while people in the community had to suffer for their good deeds. It all could’ve been avoided if the government had done a better job at anticipating the decision.
Anyway, it’s descended into a political pile-on, and the Opposition smells blood leaking from the Immigration Minister and wants him to resign. It’s just political point-scoring. Nobody in Canberra gives a fuck about these Kiwi-born crims and stateless basket cases. Just like nobody gave a fuck about Bridget McKenzie peeking through the blindfold in choosing where to spend sports grants. What’s her crime? Building new change rooms beside the netball courts in Yackandandah? Building a velodrome in Merbein? He or she who hasn’t rorted and redirected public funds to help support projects in your patch of Australia, they can cast the first stone. They made her resign; this masthead joined in on that pile-on.
But this one is fucking silly and comes at a time when everything’s fucked, so if you two fucking idiots are done calling each other names, could you please get back to fucking work and make sure the [redacted by legal] don’t put interest rates up again. Thanks.
More to come.
