Addendum...

...to the post below. Sometimes, timing is everything - I go and post something about David Marr's article, and in today's Sydney Morning Herald letters page, I find the following letter:

Others are worse

David Marr's report ("Geneva v Canberra", Herald, March 28) again has the United Nations and others Howard-bashing and criticising Australia's human rights records.

If these critics cared to take the blinkers from their eyes and look at other countries whose human rights records are nothing short of disgusting, they would see that Australia is and has always been one of the most tolerant countries in the world when it comes to acceptance of other races.

Locking people up in immigration detention centres does not make us racist or intolerant.

Gordon Thomas Darlinghurst

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Australia in a nutshell.