Posted by Kevin Bates Talk-back radio is flooded with calls; Channel Ten in Sydney have the highest ever response to a phone poll on the severity of her sentence; everyone from Bob Carr to John Howard have a go at the judge who passed the sentence and One Nation membership takes a terrific boost. At the same time, a family from Iraq, held in detention here for four years, accepted a Government offer of plane tickets that were intended to take them to Syria where they had hoped to get visas. They arrive in Vietnam and are thrown out and land in Thailand - tossed into a small room and then expelled because Syria would not grant them a visa. In 48 hours they return to Australia and end up in the Port Hedland Detention centre - locked up again - Mother Father and their children. But who cares? Not us evidently - hardly a ripple on the airwaves. A little mention in the papers and that's it! But Pauline - everyone's on her case! A little out of whack don't you think?
on August 25, 2003, 6:00 pm
What a bizarre turn of events last week in Australia. One Nation founder, Pauline Hanson gets a jail sentence and the place goes nuts!
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