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Oh, how delicious:
The daughter of the Immigration Minister, Philip Ruddock, is so distressed by his tough immigration policies that she has left the country to work as a volunteer for an aid organisation.
Kirsty Ruddock, 30, said she found it difficult to reconcile her father's hard line on immigration with the values of compassion he brought her up with.
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"It's very difficult to be his daughter because I very much want to be my own person and I have very different views from him as well. It would be fair to say I'm opposed to the mandatory detention system and certainly the detention of children in particular, and I have raised that on a number of occasions.
"I've also been very involved in human rights organisations and particularly Amnesty International, and they are, I suppose, one of the organisations that have been highly critical of his portfolio, with just cause."
She had asked her father not to wear his Amnesty International badge when discussing immigration matters as the organisation opposed his policies.
"Obviously you know I love my dad, but I do find it very difficult because sometimes you do feel a bit let down that you can't change his view on things and that you're not getting through to him, as well as that somehow it's my fault [laugh] that what he is doing is wrong."
From here, though it'll go into the pay archive in a week or so.
So - what do people think? Other than "sucked in". How do families of politicians that're involved in this sort of thing get perceived - and is this right? |
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