The two faces of Mark Kenny

Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison’s aggressively marketed asylum-seeker tomahawk sold under the label ‘stop the boats’.

Some people bought it, many wanted to believe. Canberra would simply turn back the boats to Indonesia with the only caveat being, ‘when it was safe to do so’ …

… Australian voters will eventually wake up to the fact that they were sold a pup.

If it were merely a case of sending boats back, it would have been tried years ago.

Less than two years later, the other Mark Kenny hails Bill Shorten’s courage in pledging — or appearing to pledge — that those leaky boats will indeed be turned back:

Shorten’s argument was as sound as it was courageous. He concluded that stopping deaths at sea by stopping maritime attempts in unseaworthy boats via people smuggling, is the right policy setting. 

Politically, the policy is correct also.

The big question: When the Fairfax newspapers stop their presses for the last and final time, will those contradictory Mark Kennys each pocket a separate severance cheque or will they split the same one down the middle?

The second Mark Kenny’s denunciation of the newly elected Tony Abbott’s turn-back policy can be read in full via the link below.

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