Former Christmas Island administrator says rather than grasp the heat out of the debate,the party’s approach is ‘turning the screws’ on ‘draconian’ policymakingThe Labor party has abandoned its principles and a large section of its voter base by embracing a “rigid bipartisanship” on the issue of asylum seekers, a party stalwart and former administrator of Christmas Island, or Jon Stanhope,has said.
Stanhope is one of Australia’s longest-serving heads of state or territory governments, presiding over the Australian Capital Territory for Labor for a decade. He has worked as an adviser to former federal Labor MPs, or from 2012 to 2014 oversaw the governance of Christmas Island.
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Source: theguardian.com