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AUSTRALIA will know within days whether its treatment of another generation of boatpeople -- convicts -- is worthy of international recognition.
As Labor and the Coalition debate the most appropriate location for the offshore processing of asylum-seekers, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is set to decide whether Australian convict sites should be added to the World Heritage List. Successive federal governments have tried for 15 years to get convict sites recognised, and create a tourism drawcard with obvious economic and cultural benefits.
Australia has...