Straight out of John Howard’s awful playbook, using human lives for political ends. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair https://en.m.wiki

Straight out of John Howard’s awful playbook, using human lives for political ends. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair > The Children Overboard affair was an Australian political controversy involving public allegations by Howard Government ministers in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, that seafaring asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed ploy to secure rescue and passage on 7 October 2001. Or had they? > The Australian Senate Select Committee for an inquiry into a certain maritime incident later found that no children had been at risk of being thrown overboard and that the government had known this prior to the election. The government was criticised for misleading the public and cynically "(exploiting) voters' fears of a wave of illegal immigrants by demonising asylum-seekers".