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	Podcast:		Saturday Morning
	Episode:		Kevin Rudd: Detainment of refugees ‘an act of monumental cruelty’
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:49:20
	Publish Date:		2022-03-25 20:07:00
	Description:		While holding office in 2013, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd took a tough approach to asylum seekers. Following in the footsteps of an earlier arrangement with Papua New Guinea, Rudd signed an agreement with the Republic of Nauru that denied asylum seekers the chance to resettle in Australia, allowing them to only be processed and settled in the tiny Pacific Island nation. This week the Australian government announced that it would accept New Zealand's long-standing offer to resettle boat refugees held in Nauru and other facilities, nine years after it was first made. Rudd now says the fact that it has dragged out so long is against the spirit in which his government signed in 2013. Rudd recently released his new book The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China.
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