Tag: Asylum seekers
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Clumsy Confections on all Sides
Nick Feik, editor of the online newspaper PoliticsOz, wrote this in his editorial note today (Feb. 17): TERRITORIAL TENSIONS The Indonesian government had only just finished protesting to Australian ambassador Greg Moriarty over the Abbott government’s border protection policies when its foreign minister Marty Natalegawa was again fronting the media to object to Australian conduct. […]
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Rough waters and rocky boats, but we’ll get there
This side of the stretch of water over which Australian tourists fly in droves to exotic holiday destinations and considerably smaller numbers of asylum seekers travel in rickety boats in the opposite direction, frequently drowning in the process, it was never clear how the new Abbott government was going to get the Indonesians to stamp […]
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