Put yourself in an asylum seeker’s shoes for a moment. You’ve been stuck in a stinking, tedious hellhole for years on end, you’re running with a gang of murderous thugs who’d stab you in the back as soon as shake your hand, you’re forced to lock up innocent children and their families for years on end just to keep your job, you face political persecution every time you open your mouth and you can’t get a decent family size pizza with the lot delivered for love or money.
Yes, Canberra can be a terrible place for a political refugee like Amanda Vanstone and who can blame any one of its poor downtrodden denizens for wanting to make a better life for herself in a country far far away?
Luckily, all Amanda had to do was jump aboard the John Howard Magical Diplomatic Carpet Ride, shout “Sim Sala Bim!” (after approximately $70 000 worth of lessons to make sure she got the inflection right) and it’s straight into the welcoming arms of a foreign country where her finely honed skills of diplomacy and tact will enable her to continue to serve her beloved (but distant) homeland while enjoying perhaps a few luxuries that she has been denied in her previous life of misery and servitude.
Sure, Amanda might be taking the job of somebody considerably more qualified, talented and able, who’s worked all their lives to get to the top of their profession, but that’s one of the consequences of embracing the cause of political refugees. Anyway, she’s transformed the lives of countless families by helping them find new lives in places like Nauru, Christmas Island and Papua New Guinea and it’s only fair that she gets a little something in return.
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Amanda Amanda what do you know.
Posted 22 Jun 2007 at 5:50 pm ¶Eat too much spaghetti you will explode.
That good old poltical gravy train never fails. That kind of thing from a welfare recipient would land them in the slammer. Excellent work as usual!
Posted 09 Jul 2007 at 2:48 am ¶Post a Comment