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The Age
| 10 months ago
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday the Labor caucus agreed to endorse in principle all 22 of the panel's recommendations. "This report charts the way forward and I will compromise in order to enact the recommendations of this report," Ms...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
A report to Australia 's Parliament has recommended that asylum seekers who attempt to reach the country by boat be deported to detention centers in Malaysia , Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The expert panel's report aims to curb the flow of future...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 10 months ago
Australia's humanitarian program within five years has been praised by Save the Children Australia. The children's organisation also has applauded the focus on a "comprehensive and sustainable" long-term regional solution that will prioritise the...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
Australia should transfer asylum-seekers offshore to places such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea to deter boatpeople from risking their lives at sea, a government-ordered report recommended Monday. An expert panel headed by former defence chief Angus...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
But the legislation should include an instrument that allows parliament to debate and block the transfer of asylum seekers to countries it deems inappropriate...The panel says Labor's Malaysia deal is a very good arrangement that should be built upon...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
While the Houston report has given something to both government and opposition, the Coalition has received the greater political comfort from it. The government's priority the Malaysia solution has received a pause sign; the panel says it should not...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
The findings also "dispelled the nonsense that it is impossible to turn boats back", he added, "The vast majority of these measures can be introduced as we speak (and) don't require legislation," he told reporters in Canberra on Monday. Advertisement...
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Scoop
| 10 months ago
While there are recommendations that should be implemented immediately, such as an increase of our annual intake quota from 13,750 to 20,000 and an increased effort to engage with Indonesia on a bilateral level, these recommendations are part of an...
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The Australian
| 10 months ago
Mr Houston said the humanitarian program should be immediately increased from 13,750 to 20,000 immediately and that it jump to 27,000 over the coming years...Mr Houston said there was a large backlog in the program, which was acting as an incentive...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
Mr Oakeshott's challenge came ahead of the release of a report by former defence chief Angus Houston on Monday into ways to stop asylum seekers taking dangerous boat journeys...Mr Oakeshott, whose compromise bill failed in June when the coalition and...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
It says the government's Malaysian deal should "be built on further, rather than being discarded or neglected". But the panel recommends a strengthening of the "safeguards and accountability" of the deal "as a basis for the Australian parliament's...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
An expert panel headed up by former Defence Force Chief Angus Houston has released its findings on asylum seeker policy. Three more boats carrying more than 170 asylum seekers arrived in Australian waters over the weekend and the pressure is on to...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
The report has already had the thumbs up from independent MP Rob Oakeshott. "Briefing with former CDF complete...Time to get on with it, and for the Parliament to pass appropriate legislation," Mr Oakeshott posted Twitter. Mr Houston told reporters...
