We have government to ensure that funds are spent where they will have most effect. What Ian Bell has found is enlightening: Westconnex is 2.5 to three times more costly than the M7. Thank you Fairfax Media for publishing the findings of an independent actuary who has investigated the costs of major roadways in Australia (" Light shed on the cloudy costs of roads", August 11). Then there is the lost opportunity to improve our own psyche: unfortunately, brutalising asylum seekers also brutalises all of us. People making such perilous journeys by boat must surely have an abundance of courage and initiative and I feel miffed that these gifts are being offered to Cambodia and Nauru rather than being used to enrich our own communities. I wonder if our government has thought about the opportunity costs of its asylum seeker policies. How can the Australian government ever again lay claim to compassion or humanity? Ruled by a former commander of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia is notorious for political violence, corruption, forced evictions, and other atrocities. Not content with locking them in far-away detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island, wealthy Australia is now dumping them in Cambodia – one of the poorest countries in the world.
So the Australian government really is intent on perpetrating more cruelty against a group of traumatised asylum seekers fleeing terror in their own countries.
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