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Spectator letters: Indian soldiers in the first world war, public relations PR, and why Nineteen Eighty-Four?

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

Placing refugees

Sir: Tony Abbott seems to have fooled The Spectator. Your editorial (23 August) gives plaudits to the Australian Government because it has made 4000 resettlement places available to persecuted Iraqi Christians. The implication in your statement and in the Australian Government media release is that these are extra visas attesting the generosity and humanitarian nature of Mr Abbott and co.

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