This updated edition of a stirring account of the Australian government's handling of the Children Overboard affair and the Pacific Solution is a remarkable piece of investigative journalism. New information about the ways the Howard government manipulated the situation for its own gain is included.

David Marr is an investigative journalist in Australia and the author of Barwick, Patrick White: A Life, and Vietnam 1945. Marian Wilkinson is an investigative journalist and the author of The Fixer.