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Politically discredited figures, such as Howard's immigration ministers Philip Ruddock and Kevin Andrews, were wheeled out to claim that refugees regarded the Labor government as a “soft touch” and that tens of thousands asylum-seekers ...
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Detained Sri Lankan asylum seekers sit in their wooden boat on an Indonesian navy ship in Cilegon harbour, Indonesia's Banten province, October 15, 2009, as they hold signs threatening to go on a hunger strike if they are prevented from ...
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It is not yet clear if they will be treated as illegal migrants, refugees or asylum seekers. (Jakarta Post 19.10.09). They apparently have been on hunger strike but agreed to have their boat towed into port. ... In addition as the Indonesian economy
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The latest boat sightings come as Kevin Rudd seeks a new strategic compact with Indonesia to halt the flow of asylum-seekers. As reported in The Weekend Australian, the Prime Minister heads to Jakarta tomorrow for talks with his Indonesian
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Howard employed both rhetorical signals and decisive policy action in a similar situation, implementing temporary protection visas and the Pacific Solution to completely deny illegal asylum seekers access to Australian courts. ... engineered it to
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The dictates of political pragmatism (not least a waning economy, a hostile Senate and more than a smattering of global warming scepticism on his front bench) soon compromised his initially ambitious greenhouse targets and timetable for ... Last week,