Saturday, September 3, 2011

DEJA VU TRIP FOR NT REFUGEES





In light of the High Court decision on the proposed Malaysia swap , here is another precedent. Back in the 1970s, the satirical Darwin publication -Troppo- published at the Darwin Star , which gave the NT News a run for its money, facetiously highlighted the plight of Vietnamese refugees who sailed into Port Darwin in many boats through the above offbeat travel advertisement . Nothing much has changed in the treatment of refugees , despite the fact that Australia should be more mature and enlightened, less xenophobic, even if the swashbuckling Opposition, daggers and swords drawn, scurvy rats in the media bilges , are performing like a pack of marauding political pirates .