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RECENT EVENTS at Sydney's southern beaches, from Maroubra to Cronulla, led to the usual feature of public debate in Australia these days--crude political point scoring which has nothing to do with the serious issues at stake. Inevitably, some of this involved blaming of all people the Prime Minister for the troubles--he is the all-purpose scapegoat for the mindless progressives. Then there was the use by a couple of cartoonists of the PM's words at the time of the Tampa affair, that "we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come", who put them into the mouth of a crudely depicted beach yob as applied to outsiders from the south-western ...