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9 May 2015

9:00 AM

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

Yet again, the world looks to Australia’s Coalition government, and in particular to Tony Abbott, for guidance on a problem of international security. No other government, and indeed no other leader since John Howard, has managed to tackle the vexed and ever-increasing problem of illegal boat arrivals as efficiently, as humanely, and as decisively as these two conservative Australian leaders have done.

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