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The headline says "another wrongful detention" - the real story is something else
The headline of an article in the age screams "Vanstone confesses to 'another Rau'". That is a story in itself, and no doubt some in the opposition will want to call for her to resign again. However this would be exactly the wrong thing to do.
The real story in the article is the way Senator Vanstone is dealing with the department. Her language is plain, telling her department that anybody who was not prepared to clean up their act should leave. She is insisting that change is going to happen, and that people who are prepared to change should encourage others who are not to seek employment elsewhere.
It takes time to change a cancerous culture like that set up by the chief carcinogen, Attorney General Philip Ruddock, over the course of years. Senator Vanstone is far and away the best person in the present Government to do it and should be given every chance to turn things around.