One clear difference is skin colour, which has undoubtedly affected the kind of media coverage they’ve received in Australia. Successive Australian leaders also appear to think the lives of these young non-Anglo men are more dispensable than white ones. The Howard government was utterly gutless in the case of Van Nguyen. As Nguyen faced his last days alive, our fearless foreign minister Alexander Downer sat on his hands, telling media the young man would need a “miracle” to save him now. (from the article) crikey.au/2015/01/08/crikey-says-australia-must-act-on-bali-nine/
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