Death at sea

[erudito]

Australia is, by far, one of the most successful societies on the planet. This is not hubris, the UN says so. Australia regularly ranks in the top 2 or 3 countries according to the Human Development Index. That we managed to avoid the Great Recession is just icing on the cake: we are the country which is still living in the Great ModerationThere

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[leadgend]

Why doesn't Australia insist the penultimate countries become signatories to the refugee convention?

How?

[erudito]

(1) How?
(2) Why would they? Making their problems greater and ours better surely does not seem attractive option to such countries.