Fortress Australia.

From the author's perspective in Australia, one of the most prominent values to emerge from September 11, 2001 and its aftermath is hypocrisy. On the one hand, Prime Minister John Howard condemned the firebombing of Australian mosques, the violence against individuals or businesses of "Middle Eastern appearance," and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. On the other, he and his ministers ramped up the national apparatus for detaining asylum seekers (many from Afghanistan) in exploitative arrangements with South Pacific neighbors and in Australia itself and redrew national boundaries to keep "them" out.