I am so dis­ap­poin­ted and angry at Amanda Van­stone’s response to this ship being ‘escor­ted’ back to Indone­sia. She says it demon­strates that excising the islands from our migra­tion zone was the right thing to do. Excuse me? How, exactly? I didn’t expect her to be any better than Rud­dock, it’s just I’d been away from it all for a while and I’d for­got­ten how idi­otic our politi­cians sound when they’re trying to defend indefens­ible policies.