Letter

In response to Dreyfus leaves little legacy.

Dan Duggan's imprisonment is a great disgrace

Greg Barns’ article of May 10th 2025 titled “Dreyfus leaves little legacy” is very much to the point. As he points out, Dreyfus took the relatively uncontroversial step of ending the persecution of Bernard Collaery while allowing other egregious injustices to continue.

The most shameful of these would surely be the continued incarceration of Dan Duggan, a US-born Australian citizen and father of six, who has been held in maximum security since October 2022 despite having committed no offence under Australian law.

Outrageously, Duggan now faces the threat of deportation to the US and the possibility of spending the rest of his life in a US prison, a situation that Dreyfus could have prevented.

The imprisonment of Duggan again throws into sharp focus Australia’s longstanding craven subservience to the US, with the election of Donald Trump making the ending of this situation more urgent than ever.

— Andrew Fullarton from Naarm/Melbourne