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PostSubject: The OZschwitz minister for debasing the language   The OZschwitz minister for debasing the language Icon_minitimeFri Oct 25, 2013 10:27 pm

Let us call a spade a spade shall we, Scott Morrison? Your edict, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, that detention staff and members of your department now refer to asylum seekers as "illegal maritime arrivals" is shameless and shameful.

It is a brutish manipulation of language to suit your, and your government's, political purposes.

This week The Sun-day Age published an email written by a department official to detention centre staff that states: "The department has received correspondence from the minister clarifying his expectations about the department's use of terminology." People who arrived by boat were to be referred to as illegal maritime arrivals. Those held in detention centres were to be known as "detainees", rather than "clients".

The minister subsequently said he wouldn't apologise for "not using politically correct language to describe something that I am trying to stop".

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/the-minister-for-debasing-the-language-20131025-2w794.html#ixzz2in6zoSfy
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