Andrew Bolt: Albanese government is a clown show, but releasing detainees is no joke
The government should be apologising for being caught flat-footed by the High Court and releasing detainees with virtually no controls on them. Instead it has sent in the clowns.
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Just when this clown show Albanese government thinks it’s finally fixed its mess from letting loose foreign murderers, pedophiles and rapists, along come the ministers who caused this disaster, in clown shoes and throwing pies.
What a disastrous press conference on Wednesday: three ministers refusing to apologise, yelling at a female journalist,
and keeping secret the kind of criminals they’d let onto our streets and how many they’d
now put back in custody.
Take clown one: Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who shouted at Sky News’ Olivia Caisley who dared asked the three amigos – Dreyfus, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles – if they’d apologise to Australians who’d become alleged victims of the 148 foreigners they’d released from detention, without proper controls.
A reasonable question, given one freed detainee had already been arrested for alleged indecent assault of a woman in Adelaide, and another – a pedophile – had allegedly approached children in Dandenong.
Dreyfus went ballistic, blaming the High Court for the release and mansplaining at high decibel at Caisley: “I will not be apologising for pursuing the rule of law and I will not be apologising for acting – do not interrupt! – I will not be apologising for acting in accordance with a High Court decision. Your question is an absurd one!”
That rudeness, even misogyny, and loss of control is one thing. The arrogance is another, and Dreyfus was not alone.
Sure, the government is right to say the High Court made a ruling it was bound to follow, or face criminal prosecution and massive damages for false imprisonment of people held in indefinite detention, with no hope of being accepted by another country.
That said, the government should be apologising for being caught flatfooted by the High Court, despite knowing in June this judgment would probably come, meaning it released the detainees with virtually no controls on them.
But there was no apology from Dreyfus. O’Neil also refused to apologise. And Giles just made things worse by repeatedly refusing to say exactly how many murderers, rapists, pedophiles and other criminals were among the 148, and how many he’d try to get back into detention, using new laws the government hopes to pass on Thursday that give this power to judges, not politicians.
We’ve fixed it, the clowns said. But we can’t know the details, or interrupt a government busy making a fool of itself.
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