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Crossing Continents

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A new ten-part series of the international current affairs series. At the Sydney Olympics, Australia was proud to display its multicultural heritage. Now, one year later, its refusal to allow hundreds of Afghan boat people into the country is presenting a rather different image. As the world faces a mounting refugee crisis, Rosie Goldsmith talks to the people who make immigration policy in Australia and to people who have sought asylum in Australia over the past 50 years - from Afghans on the run to refugees from seventies Vietnam and postwar Eastern
Europe. What lies behind the changes in Australian refugee policy? Repeated from Thursday

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Talks:
Rosie Goldsmith

BBC Radio 4 FM

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