ABC The Drum Unleashed - Asylum seekers offer a moral moment for Australia
If the asylum seekers who busted out of the Darwin detention centre had an advisor, he or she did their job. If ever there was a time to put the issue square back on the map of public policy, this was it.The prescient timing refers not just to the fraught Australian political situation but has a global context, as asylum seekers in Ireland kick up in a similar fashion and as US President Obama sends in the dreaded drones and ups the national guardsmen numbers along the Mexican border.
Worldwide we are looking at a Moral Moment.
We have been here before of course: the Anti-Slavery Moral Moment; the Holocaust Moral Moment and so on, some marked by courage others by cowardice.
via abc.net.au
