Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Morrison government, politically-speaking, is trying to do a loaves-and-fishes exercise with the medevac legislation, over which the parliament defied the executive this week.
It is attempting to inflate Labor’s support for a modest measure to facilitate medical transfers from Manus and Nauru into a mini “Tampa” crisis.
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