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Grattan on Friday: The Manus issue intrudes on carefully crafted pre-election scripts

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

It is a shocking truth that, for the most part, the politicians are leaving their humanity at home as they debate the future of the men on Manus.

They give little sense that they are talking about people who – whatever their particular motives in getting on boats - have been in a hellhole for years.

By contrast, there is an acute sense of the...

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