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Sending Them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference (Quarterly Essay 13) by Robert Manne (with David Corlett)

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April 2004, no. 260

Sending Them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference (Quarterly Essay 13) by Robert Manne (with David Corlett)

Black Inc., $12.95 pb, 140 pp,

Sending Them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference (Quarterly Essay 13) by Robert Manne (with David Corlett)

by
April 2004, no. 260

Some time before the sun set on the British empire, ‘British justice’ took on an ironic meaning. In the colonies, we knew it was a charade, like that doled out to ‘Breaker’ Morant during the Boer War. The dice are loaded in favour of a prosecution that nevertheless insists on carrying out its cold-blooded retribution in an apparently value-free legalese, thus preserving the self-righteousness of the empire and tormenting the condemned. Yet, as Robert Manne and David Corlett make clear in this latest Quarterly Essay, the larrikin land of Australia can now, through its treatment of asylum seekers, fairly be said to lead the world in the practice of traditional British justice.

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Sending Them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference (Quarterly Essay 13)

by Robert Manne (with David Corlett)

Black Inc., $12.95 pb, 140 pp,

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