Both are long term residents of another Country. Both are strident critics of their host Country. The fact that they are Australians is immaterial.

Consider the concept of it being the other way around.....

I cant deny that on face value they look like 5th column political activists to me.
(Reuters journalists excluded)

And it doesn't really matter who they're spying for, or if they are spying for anyone.

If the government determines your there to deliberately upset the applecart, it has every right to respond.

If the government is a questionable one then that's a matter for Cambodian citizens not Australian citizens.

If theses people are so concerned about making the world a better place they should start at home.

Why does the nun think she has some recourse to object to her expulsion?

If the government says go home you're not welcome here, you go home.

In our country people who want to come just on a speaking tour are sometimes denied, and we are supposed to value free speech.

If people with viewpoints I support aren't allowed to speak freely in Australia why should I care about some fool who wants to single handedly cause a regime change, or some activists attending protests in foreign countries.

Australian tourists should avoid Cambodia because they might be locked up for no reason - unless they pay large bribes.

Hun Sen has been running Cambodia for 33 years. Before that the Khmer Rouge were killing any Cambodian who showed that they had any brains. Why would anyone want to go to a sh-thole like that? Anyone who does, and doesn't mind his own business, deserves everything he gets. All cultures are not equal and, just because Australia is piss weak on other cultures who come here doesn't mean that there is reciprocating stupidity in countries where the primitive cultures come from - particularly Cambodia.

I'm more interested in one of our own journalists locked up for two years only last week, for exposing pedophile judges in NSW. He defied a suppression order.

He was marched down stairs escorted by six uniformed guards as if he were a terrorists.

I actually attended that sentencing as a witness. Not one mention in the MSM here in Australia.

More evidence of the rotten to the core country Australia has become, when we are informed in every news outlet about about a journalist locked up in Cambodia, but not one locked up for exposing corruption in our own country..

We're a toothless tiger in these matters and had we a real leader he would be there with an iron fist in a velvet glove, telling these regimes how much foreign aid they receive from us and our allies, and emphasizing the size of our military and its history, in say our defence of our own along the Kokoda track.

Our soldiers were the first to stop the empire of the sun even after it rolled over Thailand Burma and the Malay peninsula. And could tear a limb off of an even more powerful aggressor if it came right down to it. Why even our little Kiwi cousin could put 100,000 men in the field, if required for our mutual defence and make no mistake, Canada could match the Anzacs on her own!

Were we a nuclear power with a dozen or so nuclear capable nuclear-powered subs in our arsenal, we could back the rhetoric with something all tyrants respect. an ability to completely annihilate them.

Albeit, only after the usual quiet diplomacy had been given a chance along with the customary tea. That said one can't and should ever try to appease tyrants but need implacable and quiet resolve!

There must be consequences for this sort of outrageous behaviour and someone with testicular fortitude like the assassinated President Kennedy would have displayed it and ended these affairs well before they reached corrupted courtrooms!

Mr Morrison Sir, step up to the plate and demonstrate that quiet if entirely outraged resolve! Time to tell these regimes this is not acceptable and the time limit on our patience is rapidly disappearing! And we are prepared to commit forces, with all that that implies!

Albeit as a last resort! And use one of these smaller countries as a salutary lesson for other larger more aggressive countries as a lesson on how far we will be pushed before we push back!

Use a velvet glove, but carry a big stick!
Alan B.