SYDNEY: Australia’s new prime minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday the conservative opposition’s proposal to turn back asylum-seeker boats risked inciting conflict with Indonesia, signaling the sensitive policy will be a key issue in September elections.

Speaking in his first press conference since being reappointed prime minister in a party

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