Whatever Happened to Compassion?

Dewi Anggraeni*

There is a worrying phenomenon which has become apparent in Australia's and Indonesia's attitudes towards 'other' people: the deliberate refusal to see further than what is immediately apparent.

For nearly 15 years now Australia, under the Liberal-National Coalition as well Labor governments, has shown a consistently hardening stance in its policy on asylum seekers. It is bent on stopping the boats from coming into Australian waters. Bo

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