The whole point of detention for asylum seekers is horror, whether it is acknowledged or not
Sorry, but we don’t get to be outraged at this. The fact that a person is dead, that another has been shot or that yet another has a fractured skull doesn’t change anything.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is undoubtedly right when he describes this violent episode on Manus Island as a ’’terrible tragedy’’. In fact, he’s more right than he knows. Tragedy, in the Greek sense, unfolds as an inevitability. The very thing that makes the tragic hero so tragic is that his fate is sealed, his demise is clear, but he continues to take every step that leads him there. And in the case of Manus Island, that is exactly where we are.
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