‘Do activists opposed to boat people get grants, too?

Andrew Bolt:
WHEN Immigration Minister Chris Bowen goes looking for someone to blame for dragging the government’s Malaysia Solution into the High Court, he should look at who is behind the obvious candidate, David Manne.
Manne is executive director of Melbourne’s Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre and is the immediate force behind this challenge….Yet the source of much of Manne’s influence can be traced back to one of Labor’s key players, Victoria’s former attorney-general Rob Hulls…
Four years ago, when Labor was in office in Victoria, Hulls … agreed to use $334,080 in public money to supercharge Manne’s legal centre and make it a national player in the debate over what to do with boatpeople…’