"Stay out of politics and stick with human rights"
Christopher Pyne commenting on Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs
When you stick with human rights and stay out of politics you end up with the Coalition government's Border Protection policies.
When you stick with human rights and stay out of politics you end up with the Labor party supporting those policies.
When you stick with human rights and stay out of politics you end up with psychopaths like Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton presiding over those brutal, costly and ultimately pointless policies.
When you stick with human rights and stay out of politics you end up holding children in conditions that amount to torture for indefinite periods, resulting in hundreds of reported incidents of mental and physical abuse, sexual assaults and self-harm.
You end up with significantly higher rates of mental health disorders among those children.
You end up with children born in immigration detention who are stateless, denied their right to nationality and protection.
You end up detaining the children of parents assessed as security risks for over three years without hope of release.
You end up with hundreds of children who have been detained on Nauru suffering from extreme levels of physical, emotional, psychological and developmental distress.
You end up doing all this even after the government acknowledges it does not deter people from seeking asylum, the sole justification for detaining them.
You end up with the Human Rights Commissioner being attacked and denigrated by the government for doing her job.
You end up with laws that can result in the employees of that system being gaoled for exercising their duty of care.
You end up with most Australians not caring.
When you stick with human rights and stay out of politics you end up with Christopher Pyne saying dumb shit like this.