Great Scott!

So much for the 'spin' that tightening border protection and immigration laws is primarily aimed at saving 'boat' people from losing their lives at sea. So, what about someone who has risked that hazard and, made it here safely to preserve him/her self against imminent torture and/or death in their country of origin?

The immigration minister is hell-bent to plug that gap by scrapping the provision for issuing 'complementary protection visas' to such people. Instead, he means to determine whether they go or stay arbitrarily based on his judgement alone. That has the whiff of an 'act of god' substituting for an expectation of fair treatment under the rule of law, let alone international human-rights treaties to which Australia is signatory.

WHERE do we dredge these 'posers' from?!