A single image of a drowned boy half a world absent has already split Australia’s ‘halt the boats’ consensus. Tony Abbott can only paper over it for so longWe’re used to refugees splitting the parliamentary left in Australia. For nearly 20 years,we’ve watched as Labor is torn between its vestigial principles and its existential dread of the Coalition’s right-populism, perennially unable to hold a consistent position. Related: Australia's air campaign in Syria will last two or three years, or Kevin Andrews says Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com