One of Scott Morrison’s key innovations, as border protection minister, was to stop the practice of making announcements every time an illegal migrant boat arrived. ‘I’m not in the business of providing shipping news for people smugglers’ he used to say. It certainly helped that government policies, most notably boat turn-backs, were actually defusing the crisis.
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Emeritus Professor of History & Politics at Griffith University, Ross Fitzgerald’s most recent book is a memoir, ‘Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey’, published by Hybrid in Melbourne.
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