TheAge消息：澳洲监听印尼总统电话一事曝光后，印尼方面反应异常激烈——继周一宣布召回驻澳大使后，昨天又再次宣布终止和澳洲的诸多合作交流，其中包括难民问题。这也意味着，澳大利亚新总理罗伯特依赖印尼阻止难民进入澳大利亚的计划再次落空。
本周以来，因為窃听事件，澳大利亚和印尼的关系跌至14年来的最低点，印尼政府宣布召回驻澳洲大使，又宣布两国关系降级，临时终止双方军事合作、情报交流及分享，当中涉及对偷渡客的处理等。
印尼总统苏西洛早前批评澳洲总理罗伯特，指他在窃听事件曝光后，未曾表达歉意。在近日的全国电视讲话中，他再度要求澳洲政府解释窃听事件。
印尼总统苏西洛还称，该国将暂停与澳洲的军事合作，其中包括在打击人员偷渡方面的协助。苏西洛在雅加达对记者表示：“您可能了解，澳洲和印尼共同面临偷渡问题的困扰。”他介绍称，两国通过一个名为“协调军事合作”项目在打击偷渡方面加强合作。他表示：“我已经要求关于这一合作的所有活动都停止，直到一切水落石出。”
严厉打击从印尼海域过来的他国难民偷渡船，是艾伯特9月上台时对澳选民的重要承诺之一。反对党称，若印尼放松对人口走私的管制，可能会导致罗伯特的船民解决方案失控。
昨晚，罗伯特总理在国会回应此事时称，苏西洛是澳洲最好朋友中的一位，对窃听报导给印尼总统造成的难堪，他将表达“深刻和真诚的遗憾”。罗伯特还表示，他会“迅速、详细和礼貌地”回复印尼总统的来函。
前不久，澳洲广播公司与英国《卫报》了取得美国国家安全局承包商前雇员斯诺登外泄的机密文件，并刊文称，2009年8月，澳洲在陆克文担任总理期间，当时的国防部通讯局曾监听印尼总统苏西洛的手机通信，时间长达15天。
下面这个评论，信息量极大，大家自行阅读吧。
摘要两句：
本周二，ABC董事总经理Mark Scott对他们追随极左翼的卫报（Guardian Australia）出版由叛国贼斯诺登泄密的材料一事，拒不认错。
Scott明知，公布2009年澳洲监听印尼领导人电话会损害国家利益，他仍辩解说这是“公众希望了解的”。
结果第二天，他发现有个秘密危害性太大，必须保密——由政府拨款的ABC明星主持人的收入。
Malevolent shysters are damaging Australia
by: Andrew Bolt From: Herald Sun November 20, 2013 8:00PM
WHAT self-serving, malevolent shysters - deliberately damaging Australia and blaming Tony Abbott for it. Who are these hypocrites who betray Australia, peddle a traitor's leaks and demand we surrender to Indonesia, just to destroy a Prime Minister they hate?
Let's start with the clowns. On Tuesday, ABC managing director Mark Scott insisted the ABC was right to join the far-Left Guardian Australia in publishing secret intelligence stolen from the US National Security Agency by the American traitor Edward Snowden.
Scott said it was in the "public interest" to reveal Australia in 2009 monitored the phones of Indonesian leaders, even though he knew it would hurt his country.
"Yes, I appreciate that the release of some of this material might … cause some difficulties with the Australian-Indonesian relationship in the short term."
That is putting it mildly. These reports from the ABC and Guardian, revealing Australia monitored the phones of even President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife, haven't just led Indonesia to formally downgrade our relationship.
Nor have they simply goaded Indonesia into threatening to withhold co-operation in fighting terrorists and people smugglers, potentially putting Australians in more danger and tempting more boat people to risk their lives at sea. They will also boost support for any anti-Western nationalists in Indonesia's presidential elections next year. God knows what that might cost us.
Scott airily waved all this away, but get this. The next day he discovered there was indeed one secret too damaging to publish: how much the taxpayer-funded ABC pays its star presenters.
Scott today raged at length about this terrible leaking of information the ABC fought for three years to keep secret.
"Payroll information should be confidential. It shouldn't leak!" shrieked the head of a news outfit that made serial leaker Julian Assange a hero. Why, this leak "puts us at a significant disadvantage to our competitors".
Can you believe this guy, who had no trouble publishing secrets that put his whole country "at a significant disadvantage to our competitors"?
But Scott's hypocrisy is trumped by the Greens'. In 1999, Greens leader Bob Brown was demanding an "international peacekeeping force" invade Indonesia, if that's what it took to free East Timor. But now? These same Greens are shocked - shocked - that we tapped the phones of Indonesian leaders and they cry crocodile tears at "the damage that the unregulated surveillance state is doing to our diplomatic relationships".
Are these people mad? Have they forgotten that Indonesia, today a democracy under a friendly ex-general, was only recently less benign and tomorrow might be again? Don't they realise the phonetapping in 2009 occurred only a month after yet another Islamist bombing, this one killing three Australians in Jakarta, when Australia needed to know how serious Indonesia was in tackling extremists? Of course, the Greens are simply adolescents in permanent revolt against Father. They are at heart irresponsible, not to be trusted with real power.
But what excuse is there for Labor leader Bill Shorten? On Tuesday he sided with the Greens, Fairfax journalists and extremist Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir in demanding Abbott apologise to Indonesia.
"I believe, for instance, that the example of the United States in the way that it handled a similar issue with Germany provides the opportunity for us to consider the same course of action," he told Parliament. Shorten was referring to President Barack Obama's response to another Snowden leak, which revealed the US had monitored the calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Obama - foolishly - rang Merkel to apologise and, his spokesman said, "assured the Chancellor that the US is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of Chancellor Merkel".
BUT Indonesia is not Germany. And, if Abbott gives such a guarantee to Indonesia, he'll be under pressure to give the same to the leaders of Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and whoever else demands one. And if the next Snowden leak shows us spying on Chinese leaders, what does Abbott do next?
No wonder two Labor frontbenchers are already back-pedalling. Tony Burke today refused to spell out what Shorten actually wanted Abbott to say to Yudhoyono: "I'm not going to add to the words Bill Shorten put forward."
Immigration spokesman Richard Marles was just as skittish, refusing to confirm whether Shorten truly wanted Abbott to say to Yudhoyono what Obama said to Merkel. So what the hell does Shorten really want?
I suspect it's to embarrass Abbott and sink his successful campaign to stop the boats - a campaign that relies on Indonesia's help.
The Fairfax media, mad with Abbott hate, is doing its best to help, seeming at times to blame Abbott for spying actually done under the Rudd government. Worse, Fairfax writers are virtually united in insisting Abbott give Indonesia the apology we cannot afford. Indeed, most are on Indonesia's side. Don't doubt that. Hatred of Abbott and his signature boats policy is driving much of this hysterical media coverage and damn the national interest. Hear it from Jack Waterford, of the Fairfax Canberra Times: "There are many people, including me, who want to see our shameful policies fail."
Hear it also from Richard Ackland, of the Fairfax Sydney Morning Herald, suggesting the Indonesian President sends an armada to topple Abbott: "Best way for SBY to respond to spying is to open the spigot on refugees. Put 50,000 on boats, point them at Oz. Goodbye Abbott."
The hypocrites. The scoundrels. And is it too much to say they've sold out their country?
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