Call for Australian Govt to aid Cambodia

Australia has been slow to join in debate, but the Shadow foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd is urging the Federal Government here to take an interest in Cambodia.

ABC News quotes him as saying:

"The Australian Government should be joining in the chorus of international protests about these actions by the government of Mr Hun Sen in Cambodia".

"We have a Foreign Minister, Mr Downer, who spends his days delivering public sermons to anyone who will listen on the future of democracy in Iraq, while at the same time it seems remaining silent about the demise of the democracy or the potential demise of the democracy in Cambodia here in our own region, our own backyard - that's unacceptable," he (Mr Rudd) said.

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