And still, he remains forgotten.
Dr Ken Elliott, a Perth missionary doctor held captive by ‘Emirate of the Sahara’, a branch of Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, should have been an Australian of the Year by now. Instead, he is receiving the Raoul Wallenberg treatment.
The former do-nothing-say-nothing Foreign Minister Senator Marise Payne has been emulated by the Albanese government, which has shown the same contemptible indifference to Elliott’s situation.
Enquiries at the office of Minister of Veteran Affairs and Defence Support, Matt Keogh, regarding the plight of Ken Elliott are met with the usual perfunctory reply by a DFA bureaucratic functionary.
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