Rules? The Left Grants Itself Immunity

Rules, what good are they when the Left is inconvenienced and the progress of its agenda impeded?

That’s a question taxpayers and four spurned authors should be asking after judges charged with deciding the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction decided a pet cause trumped the contest’s rules. Many will have read how Manus detainee Behrouz Boochani (left) was awarded the richest prize for writers in the country, a very tidy $100,000, plus a second award of $25,000.

Rule Seven puts it simply, as the best writing should:

7. Authors must be Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia.

Mr Boochani is neither.

A thwarted illegal immigrant from Iran, he is a long-term resident of Manus Island, whence his epistles to The Guardian and other outlets have built up quite the cult following among Australia’s open-borders crowd. In this regard he landed on his feet because the five judges, appointed by The Wheeler Centre which administers the awards, are…