Today’s Australian carries a front page exclusive: ‘Morale crisis on asylum patrol boats’. 

The opening paragraph alone contains the following:

“Influx of asylum seekers”  “straining the Navy’s patrol boat fleet to breaking point”  “exhausted”

Highly emotive words. Having worked with refugees, this interpretOr would like to add a few more that are characteristic of people that have had no choice but to flee the well founded fear of persecution:
 desperate, disenfranchised, deeply traumatised, terrified…bereaved, stateless, homeless…HUMAN

‘Moral crisis at The Australian’ may be more apt a headline, for in this same edition we may also read that five refugee children have just drowned.              There are no words adequate to describe such tragedy…