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Australian letters

20 February 2016

9:00 AM

20 February 2016

9:00 AM

Inebriated

Sir: Dr Tanveer Ahmed’s intemperate rush to make refugee advocates the main culprit for the plight of people in detention showed little understanding of logic, justice and prudence. The advocates did not shatter the refugees’ expectations, did not create the ongoing condition of uncertainty and did not create “an artefactual space where acting out behaviours like self-harm or false allegations of rape have had incentives and rewards.”

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