On the last possible day

[j*oono]

It was tabled late on Wednesday night - the last possible day it could be tabled - after being handed to the Abbott government on November 11.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/hundreds-of-children-abused-in-detention-repor...

[gleee58]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

What I have found really disturbing today is the aggression that Abbott has shown in his attack of the HRC. And not once did he acknowledge the findings - that children in detention are unsafe. Instead he talked around the real issue whilst putting the blame wholly at Labors feet.

And in regards to it being a political stunt - the report does not excuse the Labor Govt at all. It places the blame at both.

But the big difference is that under Labor, children (and their families) at least had light at the end of the tunnel. Now these people - these children! - have no chance of being assimilated into Australia and no hope of getting out of their prison. No wonder self-harm is such a big problem.

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That's it exactly.  Abbott and anyone who claims this was an attack on his government obviously did not listen to the speech Gillian Triggs gave as she did place the blame on the previous as well as the current govts.

He is a buffoon who has declared he can win the next election in the same way he won the last - by abusing Labor at every opportunity in the knowledge, or hope, that those in the media don't press for him for answers to their questions.  When they do he can, and does,  just walk out.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Some men wish evil and accomplish it
But most men, when they work in that machine,
Just let it happen somewhere in the wheels.
The fault is no decisive, villainous knife
But the dull saw that is the routine mind.

Why, if a man lay dying on their desk
They'd do their best to help him, friend or foe,
But this is merely a respectfully
Submitted paper, properly endorsed
To be sent on and on, and gather blood.

            Stephen Vincent Benet,
"John Brown's Body"

(Benet was writing about the American Civil War and POW camps - but the words seem uncomfortably apt)

When, as will inevitably happen eventually, there is a Royal Commission into the treatment of children in detention centres, I wonder if the horrors revealed will be as shocking as those discovered in church and state run  childrens homes.