D-Day approaches, Wrongful Detention, Social Life.

[tcpip]

Hugh Lambert has predicted 97 seats to Labor and the claims (yet again)_ that the polls do not lie. Newspapers in Sydney will be interesting tomorrow as a businessman, annoyed that Howard "doesn't get" climate change and the Kyoto Protocol is spending $200 000 on full page ads urging a vote against him.

Almost on the radar is the tragic story of how the Australian Department of Immigration detained a man wrongfully for five years. Tony Burke, the best person Federal Labor has had for years in the Shadow Immigration role rightly wants a Royal Commission. The Ombudsman says there's another 200 similar cases.

Legend of the Ainu Nezumi game went off really well last Sunday; better than expected, and I consider myself a good GM. I had the opportunity to playtest some new rules which seemed to work quite well. Last Saturday caseopaya, imajica_lj and I went to see La Vie En Rose. It has its moments, but was disappointing overall. The Goddard-like jump-cuts detracted rather than enhanced and there were some serious legendary absences from the biography (e.g., Piaf's birth, her role in POW escapes, the prohibition on her receiving a Catholic funeral).

Comments

[the-shadow298.livejournal.com]

That's why it's meant to be a civil matter and not a Criminal or Commonwealth case.

I do hope that it goes ahead.
Either way, Immigration is pretty fucked.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Indeed; there seems to be some sort of collective pathology that's infected the Dept over the past several years.

[the-shadow298.livejournal.com]

Yes.

It was called Vanstone.

:)

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think Vanstone sort of took the fall for Ruddock, when he went on to become Attorney General. Ruddock was Immigration Minister for the worst years, those when the concentration camps detention centres were set up, and the most egregious errors made.

[the-shadow298.livejournal.com]

True.

I just really hate Vanstone is all.

Dislike Ruddock too but haven't met him or dealt directly with him to hate him -unlike most of the government since the Libs took power.