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The Weekend Australian says a massively expanded Australian aid package to fund detention centres and training and broader intelligence-sharing between the two nations is at the heart of Mr Rudd's sweeping plan. The Prime Minister wants a new bilateral dialogue that would make Indonesian co-operation...
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- News Source: The Age | about 1 month agoChildren on the asylum seekers’ boat receive milk and snacks yesterday. Photo: Roy Rubianto SRI Lankan asylum seekers on a boat in Indonesia were yesterday considering ending their hunger strike and said they might come ashore. The asylum seekers...
- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month agoDesperation ... a Sri Lankan hunger striker is taken to an ambulance after fainting yesterday. Indonesian port if they receive assurances about their future. Their spokesman, ''Alex'', told journalists that conditions on the boat, which the 254...
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 month agoBishop Posted October 17, 2009 18:30:00 Updated October 17, 2009 18:43:00 The Federal Opposition says it is time the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took responsibility for what it calls the "massive surge" in boat arrivals.
- News Source: The Age | about 1 month agoThe federal government is reportedly seeking a new arrangement with Indonesia after an influx of asylum seekers has left the Australia's Christmas Island detention facility at near capacity. Australia already gives Indonesia $20 million a year to...
- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month agoThe Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia are considering ending their two-day-old hunger strike as more succumb to sickness . An eight-month-old baby was rushed to hospital on Saturday morning with breathing problems as...
- News Source: Scoop | about 1 month agoX" sank in the waters of Sunda Strait, and the boats will not stop, as we have seen since that time. But, disgustingly, the government of John Howard, nor Kevin Rudd's administration, have not come up with anything that even comes close to resolving...
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- Blog Source: agora-dialogue.comThe Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia are considering ending their two-day-old hunger strike as more succumb to sickness. ... Meanwhile, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reportedly is seeking a new strategic agreement with
- Blog Source: hdlns.comSRI Lankan asylum seekers staging a hunger strike aboard their boat in Indonesia have labelled Kevin Rudd heartless, but the prime minister says he will not bow to their emotional blackmail. Two of the ethnic Tamils were rushed to ...
- Blog Source: srilanka.allaroundyou.com.au“The 255 Sri Lankan asylum seekers aboard a boat in western Java have unfurled a large banner declaring a hunger strike. The ethnic Tamils are refusing to leave their wooden boat in Merak Harbour, after being intercepted at sea at the weekend on ..
- Blog Source: jkrsothy.blogspot.comMr Ruddock has also told The World Today he doubts Mr Rudd will be successful in getting Indonesia to detain and process asylum seekers. "I suspect that while Indonesia will offer cooperation, it won't be possible for them to detain all ...
- Blog Source: refuniteaustralia.wordpress.comThe Sri Lankans are refusing to leave the boat and the standoff continued at Merak harbour, west of Jakarta, despite the navy handing over responsibility for the asylum-seekers' plight to the Immigration Department. ... Late yesterday they also hung
- Blog Source: nobordersbrighton.blogspot.comThe migrants had been at sea for 13 days before being intercepted, many of them having paid $US15,000 after having been forced to wait in the Malaysian jungle several months before a people smuggling syndicate took their passports and promised to ...
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