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A Foreign Affair: Thailand politics, human rights abuses in Iraq and Syria, Chinese telecom Huawei and what it says about Australia's foreign relations and British politics

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A Foreign Affair: Thailand politics, human rights abuses in Iraq and Syria, Chinese telecom Huawei and what it says about Australia's foreign relations and British politics

The monthly discussion, A Foreign Affair, covers a range of events in the month of February. From the fallout of ministers in British Parliament to the surprise nomination of Thai Princess Ubolratana, albeit briefly to the treatment of foreign women who joined ISIS in Iraq and Syria and what their fate is now.

Guests:

Dara Conduit, Associate Research Fellow in the Middle East Studies Forum at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

Nicholas Farrelly, Associate Dean in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

John McCarthy, former Australian diplomat who has served as Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Mexico, Thailand, US, Indonesia, Japan and High Commissioner to India

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