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| We can’t be sure precisely when Australia’s major political parties lost the public on the issue of offshore detention, but the morning of August 20 confirmed it. It was day one of a planned three-month Kids Off Nauru campaign, initiated by World Vision, and it began with Rupert Murdoch’s conservative tabloid newspapers firmly on the bandwagon. As a Murdoch newspaper source told Mike Seccombe this week: “Whatever else you might say about News Corp, we can see which way the wind is blowing.”
“The first thing we had to do was simplify the message,” says chief advocate for World Vision, Reverend Tim Costello. “But the problem was, the refugee activist community was split between pragmatism and principle.”
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on why an increasing number of Liberals want Scott Morrison to call an early election, Santilla Chingaipe on the unknown fate of Christmas Island detainees, and Andrew Leigh on how unions are key to wage growth. |
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