Bureaucrats gone mad?
Those of you reading this who are from Australia will know about the 'Cornelia Rau' affair - the woman who was wrongly imprisoned by the Australian Immigration Dept on the basis of (supposedly) being an illegal immigrant.

It now turns out that the Immigration Dept ignored signs that she may indeed have been an Australian citizen, and there is emerging evidence that someone from the dept may have (illegally) tried to tamper with the details of her case, so that their mistake could go unnoticed.

And yet the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr John Howard, calmly goes off on an overseas trip claiming that all is well.

What an outrage!
They have acted as a law unto themselves for too long. The Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone, should resign and those responsible within the immigration Dept should be sacked.