How Australia turned its back on the world's refugee crisis

(CNN)As the world works to resolve a major international refugee crisis, Australia just wants them to go away. At the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to find new long-term solutions for refugees. In Australia, however, political debate is more often about ways to stop refugees from reaching the country, especially in the lead up to that country's national election on July 2. Amid a record number of displaced people around the world, including an estimated nine million people in Asia, restrictive asylum policies have implications for refugee protection across the region and the world. There are only a...