On the topic of last week’s 4 Corners investigation into the way detention on Nauru basically erodes the souls of young detainees, Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos said that if workers on the island can’t square their conscience away with the work they do, they should just resign.
“I think people who feel very strongly that they can’t work there because of their conscience, because of what they’ve seen, well they can resign, they can come back and talk about what they’ve seen,” Sinodinos reckoned, implying anyone who questions their work remove themselves from any position where they can directly affect change.
We are trying to permanently break the people smuggling but I haven’t seen the program, says @A_Sinodinos #QandA https://t.co/MH2Fr4jomR
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) October 24, 2016
Not only did she represent an impartial observer to our system, but her previous work documenting the exploitation of children after turmoil in the Balkans gives her a pretty solid foundation to say “it’s about time that everyone gets their heads out of the sand and understand if you have a policy that says you’re not going to take in boat people, ok, that’s fine.
“That doesn’t mean that you get to justify children being abused at a detention centre.”
There is no reason for politicians to play ping pong with child abuse, says Dolan @A_Sinodinos responds #QandA https://t.co/Vr2zirTmHm
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) October 24, 2016
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