Leaders playing chicken on boats

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:15pm, first published June 30 2012 - 3:00am

If the safety of boat people making the voyage from Indonesia had really been the first consideration in the minds of politicians emoting about the latest tragedy in Parliament this week, the solution they might all have agreed on is the purchase of an ocean-going ferry.

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