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Baird’s refugee pleaFriendly fire Premier tells Tony Abbott to ‘do more’

Premier Mike Baird has called onPrime Minister Tony Abbott to ‘‘domore’’ to accept refugees, sayingAustralia’s economic strengthmeans nothing unless we help theworld’s vulnerable.

Mr Baird’s critique of Coalitionrefugee policy came as FairfaxMedia established Mr Abbott hasbeen quietly ringing backbenchers

since the start of the year as he man-ages growing anxiety over his gov-ernment’s performance.

Speaking at an Australia DayCouncil of NSW lunch on Friday, MrBaird said Australia was the luckycountry and should ‘‘open our armsto those around the world who aremuch less fortunate than us’’.

Mr Baird, a committed Christian,congratulated Mr Abbott on re-cently increasing Australia’s human-itarian intake for refugees, but said

he should ‘‘do more’’. ‘‘[There arepeople] in incredibly difficult cir-cumstances with nowhere to turn,’’Mr Baird said.

Under the former federal Laborgovernment, the humanitarian pro-gram was set at 20,000 places, but theAbbott government dropped this to13,750 places in 2013-14. In Decemberthe government pledged to increasethe annual humanitarian intake to18,750 over the next four years.

The federal government has also

attracted the ire of refugee advoc-ates with its controversial ‘‘stop theboats’’ policy of offshore detentionfor any arrivals by boat people.

Federal Labor acting immigrationspokesman Matt Thistlethwaiteseized on the comments, saying itwas clear the Abbott governmenthad ‘‘turned its back on refugees’’.

Fairfax Media has learnt Mr Ab-bott’s calls have been made to selec-ted backbenchers seen as influential

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Myuran Sukumaran,left, and Melbournepastor ChristieBuckingham with apainting of AndrewChan by Sukumaran.Photos: Jason South,Jason Childs

The art of life on death row

When Andrew Chan heard the fate-ful news he had lost his plea formercy, he and fellow Bali Nine ring-leader Myuran Sukumaran weretaking the Norwegian ambassadoron a tour of Bali’s Kerobokan prison.

Sukumaran stoically proceededwith the tour. He detailed the pro-grams he and Chan had initiated inthe prison – the computer, art,painting, English and first aidclasses – and the hygiene packswith basics we take for granted,including toothpaste, deodorantand ear plugs, which Chan regu-larly distributes to prisoners.

But Chan had vanished and hislawyer, Julian McMahon, was anx-ious about him.

‘‘Julian went to look for him andfound him with another prisonerwhose arm was paralysed,’’ says

Christie Buckingham, a pastor atBayside Church in Melbourne, whotravels to Bali four times a year tovisit Chan and Sukumaran.

‘‘He was holding his hand, coun-selling him and calming him downwhile they waited for medical as-sistance. He could have easilythought of himself and nobodywould blame him, but that is the