One boat, more than 400 people and 25 years of consequences

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/twenty-five-years-tampa-affair-offshore-processing-migration/oszaphyhi

Twenty-five years after the Tampa affair, the people, policies and political fault lines behind Australia's border debate remain.

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dillekant@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 9d

"I don't think anybody is to be blamed for that," he says.

Honest mistake, no one could have predicted the future would have turned out this way.

Except all the people who realised something monstrous like this was obviously false and that obviously the future would vindicate the asylum seekers.