From The Campaign Trail

Mohamed Haneef has been treated terribly by the Howard Government. I continue to be astounded by the attitude of the Immigration Minister - so stubborn in his refusal to reverse his initial unjust visa cancellation. Now he says Haneef's return to India has only heightened suspicions about the Doctor's character. But in the midst of this debacle it is Minister Ruddock - our Attorney General, the first law officer - who really takes the cake. He often lays out his gobble gook in a soft measured flat tone hoping to suggest deep thought and legal wisdom. But now he's found new levels of absurdity. In commenting on the Haneef case Ruddock said "I think that what we have seen is that the system worked as was intended." Well, spare us when it works in unintended ways! Nothing worked properly!