multas per gentes

[lederhosen]

Saddened beyond measure by these stories. It's bad enough that we park our asylum seekers out in the middle of nowhere for years while they're "processed".

But the ones who died in the voyage, to bury them there? So that when their relatives do finally get recognised as legitimate refugees (as most do) and start to find a place in Australia, they have to travel maybe five thousand kilometres to visit those graves? It should never have happened, and for Scott Morrison to try to revive it is just loathsome. (I will give credit where it's due to Judith Troeth, Joe Hockey, and a handful of other Coalition members who showed some basic human decency and refused the dog-whistle.)

multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem.
Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum.
Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,
nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum
tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,
accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,
atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.