Rebel Liberal MPs labelled 'political terrorists'.

Rebel Liberal MPs labelled 'political terrorists'. :

"'If you spit the dummy because the vast majority of people in your own party won't agree with you, and you in effect behave as a political terrorist, then I think you lose credibility - I don't think it's a bad sign for the party at all,' she said."

If you cannot allow open debate in a democracy of an issue which has been disturbing us all, then what are you? The people pushing the issue of our mandatory detention and detention centres are trying to bring some sanity into a set of policies and venues which are not currently serving our needs and are indeed inhumane. This is not prime facie. We have locked up our own. We have locked up mentally ill people. We have broken up families and we have caused acute mental anguish and illness. This has all been observed and documented. It is out there. Even we know about it. Our government has been elected to govern. I keep saying this. They do not have a mandate to put Corneleia Rau in Baxter. They do not have a mandate to deport our own back to a country where they are put in a hospice. They do not have a mandate to make people insane. Think about it. This is not about who is right or who is wrong or who is onside or who is offside. That is so petty given the things which have occured. All the Liberal bank benchers and others are trying to do is stabilise a very wobbly boat. Put a human face on a system which is not working. These people have not lost credibility at all. They have, infact, gained respect because they are prepared to try and solve some really tricky stuff and they have not been hot headed nor ill advised in their manner.