Last week on the ABC programme, the Drum, I confronted my unwilling conscience. The topic was the Manus Island immigration detention facility’s future after the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled the enabling agreement between Australia and PNG invalid. Immigration minister Peter Dutton confirmed the Manus closure and, other than me, the Drum panel welcomed this enthusiastically, hoping mandatory offshore detention would also be consigned to history as a cruel, inhumane policy targeting innocent asylum-seekers fleeing persecution and oppression.
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