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While this sort of behaviour continues, and there
are indications that more boats are being built and prepared
for many more thousands to leave, there will be threats to
stability in the South East Asia region.
are affected.
It is not only countries in the immediate area that
Countries far distant from South East Asia, whose
vessels trade in the area can suddenly find that they have
hundreds, or thousands of refugees to resettle.
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I believe that Australia should not only continue
to carry out a major resettlement role in accepting refugees
from the camps in South East Asia; we should discourage
governments from continuing the conditions precipitating the exodus of
refugees and thus help to produce stable societies in which
the human rights of citizens are returned to them.
We must deplore the continued inconsistence of
governments in failing to provide basic freedoms for their
people; in fostering intolerance and persecution and in
disregarding the sanctity of human life.
It is all too easy for us living in a country in
which democratic freedoms are preserved and human rights
are paramount to forget the suffering of others who live
in our region of the world.
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