Today's Crikey has an interesting little tid-bit buried in it.
It seems that Kevin Andrews doesn't appear to be able to get his head straight about what his department does....
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mail.google.com14. I is for incompetence: Andrews in a muddle again
Kevin Andrews' comments in today's
Age about the long delay in processing eight Burmese asylum seekers on Nauru won't help to dispel the cries of incompetency that continue to dog the Immigration Minister. The minister has confused an independent UN refugee agency with a senior member of his own departmental staff.
As Andrews sticks to his guns on the Sudanese issue, there's that other small matter of the massacre unfolding in Burma, and the Burmese asylum seekers that remain detained on Nauru after over a year. In today's Age, Andrews explains that one of the eight Burmese asylum seekers has voluntarily returned to Malaysia: