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What did Australia do? We praised a government that many nations regard as being guilty of genocide, we went out of our way to neuter criticism of it from other world leaders and then we gifted them 2 warships. We even had one of our Australia senators arrested and detained for speaking out about the situation in that country without comment from our PM.

Why. Because Abbott was determined to deal with the devil to show his cheer squad, how tough he was prepared to be on those seeking refuge via the sea.

It was sickening and has left a stain on this country. Some may applaud him for brown nosing those accused of genocide purely because of some ill-perceived threat to their standard of living but they are the least of us, the frightened, the racists, the selfish, those so starkly lacking in empathy or compassion that it beggars belief.

Abbott has served to give them some deluded sense that they can crow about their deficiencies as though they were virtues. They are not. I'm not a cheerleader for the Labour parties efforts either but at least them were attempting to address the issue in a manner that would leave us with some semblance of dignity.

Today we have little.