No comment called for. This piece from The Age says it all.....
"When race raises its head just before an election in Australia, the international media pays attention.
News that the Federal Government has frozen the intake of African refugees has gone around the world — and despite government denials that the decision is based on race, that's how the international media is reporting it.
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews' justification of the freeze, on the grounds that Sudanese refugees where having problems integrating into Australian society, was reported by major international news agencies, including Reuters and the French agency, AFP.
Their reports were reproduced in newspapers and on websites in Africa, Asia and Europe.
International broadcasters with massive global audiences — including the BBC, with an estimated weekly audience of 163 million, and the Voice of America, with an estimated weekly audience of 115 million — ran the story."
"When race raises its head just before an election in Australia, the international media pays attention.
News that the Federal Government has frozen the intake of African refugees has gone around the world — and despite government denials that the decision is based on race, that's how the international media is reporting it.
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews' justification of the freeze, on the grounds that Sudanese refugees where having problems integrating into Australian society, was reported by major international news agencies, including Reuters and the French agency, AFP.
Their reports were reproduced in newspapers and on websites in Africa, Asia and Europe.
International broadcasters with massive global audiences — including the BBC, with an estimated weekly audience of 163 million, and the Voice of America, with an estimated weekly audience of 115 million — ran the story."
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