Honest John and Smiling Phil (but maybe not Kevin Andrews) will no doubt be heaving sighs of relief with the recent announcement that Dr Mohammed Haneef is heading back to his loved ones in India. They will probably take a 'less said the better' approach to the issue from now. Their vendettas against the parties that are guilty for the fiasco will take place in private and probably in terms of preferment.
Old Kevin has to continue to hold the line, however. It is his witholding of Dr Mohammed's work visa which prevents the doctor's obtaining an income while under Immigration Department supervision. I wonder if he Dr Mohammed is building up a potential bill for the privelege, with no income with which to offset it? If so, it is good to know the immigration department's rules are working as designed.
With Mohammed out of the way and his lawyers resorting to making sure none of his property has been kept unlawfully, it might even become advisable to give the doctor back his good name. Then, either rely upon the indian government's good graces in preventing his return, or trust in the traumatising experience he has been put through as having sufficient effect upon him so as to make him not want to come back. Either way, he's gone.
The shameful behaviour of high ranking officials through the incident will be recast as misplaced honest loyalty, a couple big wig players might have to fall on their swords as pennance for following johnny's dog whistle, and we can get back into increasing government power over individual liberty. Smiling Phil is already licking his lips.
Is it a conincidence that while all this has been going on, the Australian government is in the process of making a decision about whether or not to sell india some of our uranium, despite their not being signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty?
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