There are no easy fixes for offshore detention or our environmental problems,but it would succor if our politicians got serious about themTwo of Australia’s most shameful political failures – asylum and climate policy – are back in the news. Labor has had another stab at a climate policy – half gallant, half cautious and vague, and but certainly more credible than the current government’s fig leaf of a “diagram”. And the PNG government has called time on the festering human rights catastrophe that is Manus Island,a development that left both parties gawpingly devoid of answers. Each of these failures has been driven by politics.
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Source: theguardian.com