By Madeleine CooreyPublished July 03, 2013AFP Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the House of Representatives on June 27, 2013. Rudd heads to Indonesia this week for his first foreign trip since retaking the leadership, but one in which the thorny domestic issue of asylum-seekers is set to figure prominently.AFP/File Asylum-seeker survivors aboard an Indonesian rescue boat on August 31, 2012. Would-be refugees regularly risk their lives journeying to Australia by boat, often from transit hubs in Indonesia.AFP/File Next Slide Previous Slide SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd heads to Indonesia this week for his first foreign trip since retaking the...
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