text: July 16, 2018 — 12.55pm
  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, centre, greets supporters.
  Australia has already joined two statements at the UN Human Rights Council expressing "deep concern about the recent serious decline of civil and political rights in Cambodia". But its bilateral diplomacy has been more muted, perhaps due to the ongoing refugee resettlement arrangement with Cambodia and Cambodia's imprisonment of the Australian filmmaker James Ricketson on bogus espionage charges.
  But Cambodia's culture of impunity needs to be addressed head-on, not ignored or downplayed. Abusive Cambodian officials need to understand that there is a cost for their actions, if not in Cambodia then at least abroad.