Next week Burmese President Thein Sein will become the first Burmese head-of-state to visit Australia in almost 30 years.
But one group - Burma Campaign Australia - says the visit sends the wrong message.
Campaign coordinator for the activist group, Zetty Brake, says human rights abuses and lack of democracy continue in Burma.
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