Charge of the light brigade

Today, though, the AFP's Ukraine Operation is looking more and more like the charge of the light brigade: gallant, but not bright.

For the third day running, the AFP has failed to reach the crash site. The Federal Government has said they could wait for up to three weeks on the outskirts of Donetsk, in the middle of a civil war whose deeper geopolitical issues the Government has by its own admission little interest in.

This isn't the AFP's fault. But those who sent them there appear to have been misled about the conditions they would find.

In place of the ceasefire supposedly provided for by last week's Australian-sponsored Security Council Resolution 2166, the crash site is a battleground as the Ukrainian army attempts to drive a wedge between the rebels and the Russian border. (See, for instance, this New York Times report.)

Indeed, the AFP's Ukrainian hosts stand in breach of a cardinal provision of SC/2166, "that all military activities, including by armed groups, be immediately ceased in the immediate area surrounding the crash site to allow for security and safety of the international investigation".

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A former chief psychiatrist to Australia's detention centres has described the government's treatment of asylum seekers as akin to torture.
In an interview with Guardian Australia, Dr Peter Young said the Immigration Department was deliberately harming vulnerable people to pressure them into giving up their attempts to come to Australia.
Dr Young was for the past three years the director of mental health services for International Health and Medical Services, the organisation providing medical care to Australian detention centres on the mainland and offshore.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/torture-used-to-dissuade-asylum-seekers-says-former-detention-centre-psychiatrist-dr-peter-young-20140805-3d5h3.html#ixzz39Um3kCQH

Thank goodness there are no more coming or drowning and we can once again close the camps,.

We see the failed policy imposed on labor by the greens with 51,626  unauthorised arrovals. They are marching in our streets shouting NAZI slogans. 

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