May 07, 2004

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Extradition update

Thanks to Tony for pointing me to another article on the ongoing Hong Kong/Australia extradition farcas. I've written about this before. Now HK's Secretary of Education, Arthur Li, has gone as far as diplomatically possible to slam Australia over the cases.

In Melbourne yesterday, Professor Arthur Li said Canberra's decision late last year to block the extradition of two white Australians to face criminal charges in Hong Kong risked being interpreted as having a racist component. "It has given people in Hong Kong a very unfavourable impression of what Australian justice is about," Professor Li told The Age.

Although visiting Australia to speak with education authorities, Professor Li spoke yesterday of the potential diplomatic fallout over the decision by Justice Minister Chris Ellison to block the extradition of construction industry executives, Chris Voigt, 46, of Brisbane, and David Roger Hendy, 42, of Perth.

If politicians continue to wonder about Australia's place and reputation in Asia, they should look at things like this and realise they make rods for their own backs.

posted by Simon on 05.07.04 at 02:36 PM in the




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Excerpt: Slowly but surely the ongoing festering extradition debacle between Australia and Hong Kong is gaining prominence. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that HK Chief Exec Tung Che-hwa is close to making a formal complaint to Prime Minister John Howard and...
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