Price of resettling refugees should not be our silence on Cambodia

In recent weeks, Abbott government ministers have been spruiking a plan for Cambodia to resettle some or all asylum seekers on Nauru who are found to be genuine refugees. While the Australian and Cambodian governments are yet to finalise an agreement, it may just be a matter of time. Cambodia is 'very keen', as foreign minister Julie Bishop pointed out repeatedly in an interview, to be a part of a 'regional solution' to the asylum seeker dilemma. Australia, too, is keen.