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Leading article Australia

Getting it wrong

21 May 2015

9:30 AM

21 May 2015

9:30 AM

Could our progressive elites have got it more wrong? Far from being derided by the ‘enlightened’ countries of Europe and our ‘incensed’ northern neighbours, Tony Abbott is being emulated by both. Horrified by the multiple disasters occurring in their own waters – the mass immigration (and fatalities) across the Mediterranean, the waves of boat people flooding into Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand – nations around the world are closely studying what has for so long been sneered at by the Australian left as a simplistic ‘three word slogan’; seeing therein the only plausible solution to the twin complexities of asylum-seeking and...

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