Dance partners Dutton and the Corporate Media continue to their political two-step on a non-government but high-court decision that was an LNP bill and mistake in the first place while Dutton was the sitting minister

Peter Dutton and Selective Outrage ( By Rachel Withers and The Politics ) The media needs to take a good hard look at itself, and the racist moral panic it has enabled One can’t help but wonder whether certain members of the Coalition and the media were secretly thrilled to hear that two of the detainees released under the High Court’s NZYQ ruling had allegedly reoffended. The news has become the story of the day, dominating front pages and interviews and Senate motions, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton hysterically ramping up his calls for the ministers for home affairs and immigration to resign, while stoking fears of further “attacks”. (One former detainee, a sex offender, has been charged with indecent assault against a woman in Adelaide, the other with drug possession. Both are “entitled to the presumption of innocence”, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance, as is a third ex-detainee who has today been arrested for breaching reporting requirements.) It’s worth pointing out, again, that offenders who have served their sentences are released into the community all the time. As Crikey’s Emma Elsworthy writes, “recidivism does not typically make headlines”, despite Australia’

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