Tuesday, August 09, 2005

more hubris on display

The Senate hearing examining Ms Solon's deportation has heard that immigration officers ridiculed Ms Solon's ex-husband, Robert Young, after he contacted the department in search of her.

In an email tendered to the inquiry, an immigration officer refers to Mr Young as being like "Anthony Hopkins from the film Silence of the Lambs".

Public servants appear to have taken a 'cue' that it is acceptable to make value judgements about clients and to take official actions on that basis- I wonder where they got that notion from?

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