“That offshore detention thing. Is it going… well?”
Oh Charlie, you’ve done it again. It is becoming a ‘Weekly’ occurrence for The Weekly host Charlie Pickering to have us cheering, addressing contentious social and political topics. Recently, he picked apart the Paleo diet, challenged institutional racism, and called out victim blaming. He does so with humour, wit, and most importantly, intelligence.
This week, Pickering is questioning exactly how it is possible that with an impending election, the Australian public know so little about an issue that not only costs us a great deal of money, but involves the gross mistreatment of human beings.
Watch what Charlie Pickering had to say here:
“Yet there’s one issue that’s been in the news for over a decade, cost us over $1 billion last year, and about which we’re not even allowed to ask questions. Questions like: that offshore detention thing. Is it going… well?”
The reason the government doesn’t want people asking those sorts of questions is because the answer is glaringly obvious, and absolutely disgusting.
While some information regarding the abuse of refugees in off-shore detention centres like Nauru and Manus Island reach the mainstream media, the Border Force Act and associated secrecy laws prevent us from receiving the full picture.
An alarming fact: “More people have walked on the moon than journalists have walked on the grounds of these detention centres.” So, if the government WON’T tell us, the people with first hand experience aren’t ALLOWED to tell us, and we’re not able to ask questions, how are we to know?
Other than the tiny pencils, and maybe a sausage in bread, there is something voters should be armed with when voting in the upcoming election, “an informed opinion.”
The current system is refusing us that.
Fore more like this:
Watch Charlie Pickering pick apart the paleo diet.
Charlie Pickering: ‘I know nothing about racism in Australia.’
VIDEO: Children speaking from inside Australia’s detention centres.