Events kept me away from the keyboard over the past week ... the long weekend, State of Origin football and various other family and work distractions.
It's nice to be able to get some time in front of the keyboard on the same day that a threat to the party unity causes our 'man of steel' to back down over one of the nastier pieces of government legislation.
Good luck to Petro Georgiou, Bruce Baird, Judi Moylan and Russell Broadbent who successfully forced John Howard to retreat from his hardline stance regarding the detention of asylum seekers. It's an extraordinary achievement. The rantings of Sophie Panopoulos would have been nothing to the taunts and threats that the band of renegades would have endured behind closed partyroom doors.
Now that they've won this breakthrough, perhaps they could turn their attention to the case of another person, an Australian citizen no less, who's been locked away for three years without trial .... David Hicks.
With a majority in both houses, it is great to see someone standing in the way of jwh crushing democracy. There aren't enough strong female role models in parliament and Judi Moylan has really set a great example, even as a lib.
Abso-freaking-lutely. I never quite grasped the notion that because Hicks is suspected to have been involved with terrorists he seems to have lost legal recourse to his human rights.