Below is the text of the editorial from today’s edition of
the online newsletter Crikey. It would
be hard to disagree:
We may have declared war on
Indonesia. Accidentally, of course.
It's hard to know the more
laughable revelation from Immigration Minister Scott Morrison's humiliating
press conference this morning: that in chasing asylum seeker boats away as part
of "Operational Sovereign Borders" we breached the sovereignty of
Indonesia, or that our naval navigation systems are so poor commanders couldn't
have avoided it.
Morrison and the poor sap he
plucked from the army to run this ramshackle operation, Lieutenant General
Angus Campbell, got down on their knees and issued a grovelling apology to our
neighbour and ally. A review will be launched! It will never happen again!
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop got on the blower to her Indonesian counterpart
Marty Natalegawa to offer an explanation, but it seems he's no longer taking
her calls.
And who could blame him.
This government has vowed to
stop at nothing to stop the boats. On that, at least, it is keeping its
promise. But we couldn't have imagined just how far it would go -- and how much
damage to foreign relations they'd do in the process.
1 comment:
They are a rabble. Well Australia got what it wanted. Just sit back and watch the trainwreck knowing you had nothing to with installing these people.
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