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 | | At a time when governments are blaming 'faulty intelligence' for their own mischief, David Marr and Marian Wilkinson's Dark Victory which deals with one group of 'boat people' seeking asylum in Australia is worth a close read. |
 | | More than an election post-mortem; more than a scandal-tinged examination of the Tampa episode, the children overboard affair, and the 'Pacific Solution', Dark Victory exposes an election masterplan by the Prime Minster, John Howard, in which the media, the judiciary, the military, asylum seekers, the federal Opposition and, finally, the Australian electorate, were duped. |
 | | This is partly due to Marr and Wilkinson's humanisation of 'illegals' and 'queue-jumpers'; the people that the Coalition government successfully de-humanised. |
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