Do Australians realise they are a bit arrogant?

From a newspaper article,

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Papua appeasement backfires: ALP
TRYING to appease Indonesia with tougher asylum seeker rules has backfired on the Federal Government, Labor says.
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the Federal Government should have insisted Jakarta respect Australia's existing asylum seeker laws, he said.
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(The Australian: April 19, 2006)
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Probably, he is right and most Australian seem to agree with him. However, by the same token, I would say "The Australian should respect Indonesia's existing drug smuggler laws."