Abstract
The controversy over potential payments, or bribes, by Australian customs officers or Australian Secret Service Agents (ASIS), for a boat crew to take refugees back to Indonesia reveals much about accepted attitudes towards our near neighbours. Since 1965, successive Australian governments have played a two-faced and contemptuous game in regards to its diplomatic behaviour toward Indonesia. The Australian government has taken the pretense of the moral high ground at home while engaging in some truly grubby diplomatic activities to our near North
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | Independent Australia |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |