We then had the Prime Minister and Minister Peter Dutton, both former Immigration Ministers, calling for compassion and humanity after a daughter was denied entry to Queensland to attend her father's funeral due to, ironically, tough border controls as a result of COVID-19.

Their plea for common sense was warranted, but not without a level of hypocrisy.

There has been no better example of a debate that requires compassion than that of asylum seekers and refugees across the world.

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