I'm not proud of myself, but I am very happy about one man's misfortune

Those people who worked on the Home to Bilo campaign? Bloody geniuses. They were the ones who saved Priya Nadesalingam and Nades Murugappan and their two daughters Kopika, then two, and Tharnicaa, from being deported in the middle of the night. Or take Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, who's been working on behalf of refugees since Cleopatra was a girl.

By the way, that Bilo family are happy little locals now (also, how come only Biloela gets the Nades food truck?). Jealous.

Just a few weeks ago, as Australia was dealing with the insanity of neo-Nazis, Rintoul had this to say: "Disgracefully, the federal Labor government has pandered to anti-migrant racism with claims that it is already cutting immigration. And Labor continues to scapegoat refugees and non-citizens with its deplorable deportation laws and the use of Nauru as an offshore prison. Racist scapegoating must be rejected. Immigration is not responsible for the housing and rental crisis or the cost of living."

Absolutely wonderful sentiments. But right now, I'm absolutely loving immigration detention. Why the hypocritical change of heart?

Look, I'm not proud of myself but I'm experiencing intense schadenfreude - that feeling of pleasure at someone else's misfortune. Let me explain.

There was this bloke, Matthew Gruter, a South African, who took part in that neo-Nazi rally. He was one of 60 allowed to assemble outside NSW parliament and yell Hitler youth chants on November 8. I mean, an absolute loser. Anyhow, right now, he's about to be deported because his work-sponsored visa was cancelled. Perhaps, by the time you read this, he's already gone. So sad. Too bad. This was a bloke campaigning about how bad immigration is - and who had obviously never thought of himself as an immigrant.

Maybe he's only talking about people who aren't the same colour as him. And the worst of it is, his wife and kid have to follow. Talk about collateral damage, although you'd have to wonder about her judgement.

Tony Burke, Minister for Home Affairs, delivered gold: "If you're on a visa, you're a guest in Australia, and if a guest turns up to your home, you've got expectations about how they'll behave. If someone turns up for the purposes of just abusing people and wrecking the place and damaging the cohesion, you can ask them to leave."

And guess what? "Australia has asked them to leave."

Look, I'm pretty sure I'll go back to hating immigration detention as soon as Gruter's gone but it kind of feels like this is justice, the kind this South African misfit wants to deny other people. So yeah, not just schadenfreude, megaschadenfreude, if you'll excuse my mashup of Greek and German.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to deport all the dicks at the rally. Some of them appear to be Australian - but only by virtue of citizenship. There is nothing else Australian about them.

Mind you, did you hear the one about the Coalition wanting to ensure new migrants agree with Australian values by toughening screening? Haha. These are the people trying to divide Australia by claiming we are strangers in our own homes. Andrew Hastie, looking at you. Or that Indians are only here so Labor can boost its vote. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, looking at you. Or that there might be Chinese spies handing out how-to-vote cards for Clare O'Neil. Jane Hume, looking at you.

Are these decent human beings? Or transmogrified into power-hungry politicians trying to grasp power?

Let's very much hope that they won't get anywhere near the machinery of migration into this lovely country - because we will end up with the kind of infighting currently destroying the Coalition.

How do we keep our country lovely? I asked Will Partlett, a University of Melbourne academic who specialises in public law, what he thought we could do about Nazism in this country. Can we just outright ban it?

He thinks legislation in the states is absolutely the right way to go about making it difficult for Nazis to organise in public. Victoria, he says, has done a good job of banning Nazi symbols and paraphernalia (while also considering the need to show some of those images in, for example, the study of World War II). NSW is now developing legislation along those lines.

"The types of laws keeping that type of incendiary or inciting speech out of our politics is a good thing in my view," Partlett says.

But it turns out these bozos might just be able to run in elections. They could apply to register as parties in states and territories. Bit of a higher bar in federal elections, you need 1500 members. Please tell me we don't have that many fools in this country. University of NSW's Rosalind Dixon, a constitutional law expert, has called on the federal government to give "Commonwealth and state electoral commissions express power to ban parties that espouse racial hate and vilification as founding policies and values". Too right, Queen Rosalind.

And what do regular citizens think about the state of our polity now?

I'd like to give the last word to Amy Taylor, lead singer of Amyl & the Sniffers. That band won four Arias at this year's awards on Wednesday night.

When the band won Album of the Year, Taylor accepted the award and said: "As the new prime minister of Australia, I'd like to say all immigrants are welcome, I'd like to say land back, the dole's going up, and every pub gets a million dollars."

Hard agree. Although, tell me, does every pub need a million bucks?