I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via misswallflower)
David Manne rocks my socks!
Australia has reached an impasse in our policy on the processing of asylum seekers. The High Court’s ruling of the unlawfulness of the so-called Malaysia solution is an opportunity not to be squandered. Australia must now legally acknowledge our policy of offshore processing as a shirked responsibility. The time has finally come to take the mature, humane and fair route of processing asylum seekers on the Australian mainland – it makes economic, legal and compassionate sense.
By shooting at your enemy you are not in the deepest sense wronging him. But by hating him, by inventing lies about him and bringing children up to believe them, by clamouring for unjust peace terms which make further wars inevitable, you are striking not at one perishable generation, but at humanity itself.
— George Orwell
