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Let’s wrap nowadays, and Tuesday: 8.12am BSTFormer prime minister John Howard has distinguished his government’s 1999 decision to offer secure haven to 4000 Kosovars from the question facing Tony Abbott over Syrian refugees.“That secure haven was offered in the genuine belief ... it would be a temporary thing only and that the aggressors would be taken out and the Kosovars could recede back to their homeland,” Howard told reporters in Sydney. “I don’t know that the circumstances now are exactly similar.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com