Senator Andrew Bartlett
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
 
Last week I visited Christmas Island for 3 days.

I went first and foremost so I could meet with the Vietnamese people who have been in the Island's Immigration detention centre since July last year. Whilst I was there I also met with many other people and groups on this fascinating island. I'll write more about some of those issues later.

I returned on the Thursday night flying into Perth and then to Adelaide early the next morning for the funeral of Janine Haines, which was a sad affair in a number of different ways.

After a couple of days at home over the weekend, it's been back to Canberra and parliamentary sittings.

The irritations of the way politics is portrayed have been grating on me much more than usual this week, probably because it's combined with me having a fairly bad case of the flu, which is very unusual for me (as I'm one of those people who 'never get sick' - with physical illnesses anyway).

posted by Andrew Bartlett @ Wednesday, December 01, 2004
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