The Race Card

At the 2001 Australian Liberals' election victory party, there was an unexpected appearance by a key election player - the Race Card. As the Race Card (dressed in a red lycra devil suit) was being ejected, he yelled: 'I've been with [John Howard] the whole campaign and now you're kicking me out. No respect. I tell you what, they just use you.'

 

Our Prime Minister, John Howard, characterized Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as a mass murderer, torturer and persecutor of his people who must be removed so that his people can be freed from tyranny. Yet when Iraqi people have sought to escape Saddam's Iraq by seeking refuge in Australia, the Howard Government has locked them up or turned back the leaking boats that brought them.

 

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