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Surely our enemy’s enemy is our friend?

The Kurds are getting a raw deal from Australia

22 August 2015

9:00 AM

22 August 2015

9:00 AM

In a speech to the Sydney Institute, Julie Bishop declared the threat Isis pose to international order is greater than the one Soviet-led communism presented. The historical ineptitude of this aside, there’s something preposterous about a government whose foreign minister makes such a statement, while threatening life imprisonment for Australians fighting against this alleged menace.

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