not the motorcycle diaries

It’s a happy day for people power! There is something so very heartening about the fact that the PM has pulled the bill to amend the Migration Act, which - along with other human rights abuses - would have made it effectively impossible for refugees arriving by boat to recieve asylum in Australia, subjecting them to a potentially indefinite detention on the remote, impoverished island republic of Nauru. There were enough people with enough heart and enough foresight to see that the bill was just more cruel and cynical electioneering from John “draconian” Howard and his hard-right cronies.