There Must Be a BBC Reporter (Playing with My Heart)

Of course, it's not just the BBC's Phil Mercer who's engaged in what seem like full-blown campaigning against the 'hardline' immigration policies of Australia's politicians. His newly-arrived BBC colleague Jon Donnison is, inevitably, singing from exactly the same biased hymn-sheet in his latest From Our Own Correspondent piece, Australia election: Asylum debate cooks up anger and uncertainty. 

Please allow me to paraphrase this emotionally-charged tosh...

There's cheerful Syrian refugee Kobra and her nice friend Xanthe, a journalist who welcomed poor Kobra with open arms. They live together, they smile together, they cook together. Who wouldn't like them?

Alas "not all Australians are so welcoming" as nice Xanthe. 

Australia's politicians are pledging "hard line" policies on immigration, though they deny their policies are "inhumane". 

Yeah right, cos "there's also a nasty edge to the debate", says Jon. There are "overtly racist views" out there, and the politicians are reaching out to the "anti asylum seeker vote". Jon can even quote a nasty man he met in the pub saying something nasty about asylum seekers - just the sort of thing nasty racists say in Britain about immigrants.  

Nice Xanthe accuses the party leaders of "playing politics with desperate people." She points something out to prove that. 

Poor Kobra though has "little chance of seeing her family here soon." That makes her cry, but she still loves Australia. Both Xanthe and Kobra are "worried".

Jon Donnison, already tugging manically at our heart-strings, ends by bringing in the whole violin section of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (metaphorically-speaking) to break our hearts with his closing words...

Her 13-year-old daughter Betoul wants to be a lawyer. Kobra says if she could one day join her here, Betoul would be able to work hard and repay Australia for the generosity and kindness the country has shown to her mother.

If this piece is an example of impartial BBC reporting I'll eat a kangaroo's testicle. 

You can take the biased BBC reporter out of Gaza but, clearly, you can't take the bias out of Jon Donnison's reporting.

The BBC's Australia correspondents are proving themselves to be absolutely relentless here.