{"id":1203260,"date":"2023-09-07T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/sep\/07\/australia-seen-as-soft-on-human-rights-for-failing-to-confront-uncomfortable-history-expert-says"},"modified":"2023-09-07T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:23:46","slug":"australia-seen-as-soft-on-human-rights-for-failing-to-confront-uncomfortable-history-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/07\/australia-seen-as-soft-on-human-rights-for-failing-to-confront-uncomfortable-history-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia seen as \u2018soft on human rights\u2019 for failing to confront \u2018uncomfortable\u2019 history, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Jeffery says country\u2019s \u2018discomfort\u2019 stems from reluctance to address own history including treatment of First Nations people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/sep\/07\/australia-politics-live-qantas-catherine-king-aviation-policy-qatar-anthony-albanese-jakarta-li-qiang-question-time-peter-dutton-richard-marles\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia is seen as \u201csoft on human rights\u201d because it has failed to confront its own \u201cuncomfortable\u201d history including the mistreatment of First Nations people, a leading expert says.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Ren\u00e9e Jeffery, who specialises in human rights and foreign affairs, will say in a speech in Canberra on Thursday that Australia has failed to openly condemn \u201csome of the world\u2019s most egregious abuses\u201d, often choosing quiet diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/sep\/07\/australia-seen-as-soft-on-human-rights-for-failing-to-confront-uncomfortable-history-expert-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Jeffery says country\u2019s \u2018discomfort\u2019 stems from reluctance to address own history including treatment of First Nations peopleFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203297,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203260\/revisions\/1203297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}