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October 22 2016 - 2:00am
SCATHING: Letter-writer Beverley Campbell, of Castlemaine, slams Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for his stance on refugees.
SCATHING: Letter-writer Beverley Campbell, of Castlemaine, slams Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for his stance on refugees.

A huge double standard

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rejects Amnesty International's report of "deliberate and systemic torture of refugees on Nauru". The government's justification is always the same – "we have stopped the boats". There is a gap in the logic of its equation. For the government, stopping the boats equals mistreatment of innocent people.

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