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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 .