A Kiwi editorial blasts Australians and the international community for their failure to address the plight of the noncombantant refugees starving themselves to death in camps in the Australian desert while wringing their hands at the treatment of captured fighters in Cuba.
Neville Roach, chairman of the Council for Multicultural Australia, said: "Every time a humanitarian issue is raised in relation to asylum-seekers, their deviousness and criminal intent is proclaimed.
"The way that the government has handled these issues has given comfort to the prejudiced side of human nature. Compassion seems to have been thrown out of the door."
