More from suburbia - this time from Pennant Hills ... a leafy middle-class suburb about 18km northwest of the City ... where lives Philip Ruddock the Federal Minister of Immigration. As the whole world knows by now, Australia has a very punitive detention policy for asylum seekers who arrive in the country by unofficial means. Protestors controversially assembled yesterday in the Minister's own home street ... panorama. Ruddock is third on the left in this picture I took earlier this year (during Chinese New Year, hence the cleaver and the roast pig - the other men in the picture are -- to his left -- John Brogden, Leader of the Opposition in the NSW parliament, and to his right, Robert Ho, City Councillor, recently in the news for his role as a business associate of the victem in a major kidnap/extortion case.) This pic shows a boy at the protest sketching a detainee on the roadway and this pic from a little later in the proceedings shows the police line blocking the road. The "money" strewn on the road in front of the police in this last picture is a reference to recent "cash for visas" allegations concerning a Ruddock associate.
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