Federal Labor is smarting over government plans to send some asylum seekers to Cambodia, citing the coalition's opposition to the aborted people-swap deal with Malaysia.
Foreign minister Julie Bishop has asked the Hun Sen regime to consider the plan, amid claims of human rights abuses in Cambodia.
Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson said the coalition had run interference against a similar scheme proposed by the Gillard government, yet was now saying Cambodia was a suitable destination for refugees.
"So this smacks to me of political opportunism on their part," he told reporters in Canberra.
Labor colleague Andrew Leigh dismissed the idea as a "thought bubble".
"If the government has a serious policy proposal they want to put to the opposition we're happy to entertain those," he said.
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne, while acknowledging Cambodia was a signatory to the UN refugee convention, is concerned about the country's political climate.
"Here is Julie Bishop appeasing a regime engaged in human rights abuses," she told reporters in Canberra on Monday, adding there had been a crackdown on dissent."
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Foreign minister Julie Bishop is very bad to shake the bloody hand of criminal Vietcong/Yuon slave(puppet) Hun Sen.
Is Foreign minister Julie Bishop well informed and educated about the evil Vietnam that currently controls and makes Cambodia miserable and underdeveloped because of criminal CPP Hu Sen (an illegal PM has been installed by Vietcong leaders in Hanoi)? Maybe not, because Foreign minister Julie Bishop is trying to go with the flow and do the business as usual without her awareness of angry people of Australia who are the voters of her party and Cambodian people might be very disappointed with her. Maybe she is only interested in the wealth or money can be given to her by thieves (from evil Vietcong) working in Cambodia and criminal Hun Sen. Who knows? She might be not be aware of this matter. Hopefully, she will change her mind of not taking part of criminal CPP Hun Sen and evil Yuon/Vietcong leaders because Hun Sen and Vietcong/Yuon leaders are very bad animals or disgusted species in Southeast Asia.
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