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This year’s release, from the cabinet records of 2002, is framed by two events of the previous year: the Tampa affair and 9/11.
In this, Howard took an important step in the evolving trade relationship with China.But 20 years later, the Australian people are suffering from failure by the Commonwealth and the states to establish a gas reservation policy on Australias east coast.Likewise, there is only a short minute on Howards discussions with Bush in June 2002 and too little to indicate what significance they may have had to the subsequent intervention in Iraq.Cabinet records are only the top of a pyramid.
'The election of the Albanese government provides the opportunity for a reset, putting behind us the past mistakes of both Coalition and Labor Governments in the last 20 years.' By Frank Brennan
There remains crippling fear and powerlessness, however, in a group of people who have waited a decade to know if we will grant them safety.
Australia’s offshore detention policies have helped to produce indifference to the suffering of refugees. Pushing refugees out of sight, and out of mind, has now placed them beyond moral concern.