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Our newest Australians
Sydney :: Australia | 25 days ago
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Twenty-two Sri Lankans on the Oceanic Viking disembarked yesterday and were transferred to a detention centre in Tanjung Pinang...The transfer of the group may mark the beginning of the end of an episode that has created much political angst in Australia...
Tags: Australian, Indonesian, Kevin Rudd, prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, asylum seekers, Mr Rudd, ethnic tamils, lankan asylum, OHN Howard, Australia, Sydney, Immigration to Australia, Nauru, Pacific Solution, Howard Government, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Alexander Downer, Social Issues, Julia Gillard, Rudd, Manmohan Singh, Stolen Generations, Racism in Australia, Politics, UNITY, Bintan Island, Tanjung Pinang, Liberal Party of Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Christopher Pyne, Politics of Australia, Nick Minchin, Environment
Politician back-pedals on asylum 'scum' slur
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility A Northern Territory politician has been forced to explain a parliamentary gaffe in which he referred to asylum seekers as "scum". The Opposition's infrastructure spokesman, Adam Giles, was voicing his concerns about vacant Alice Springs demountables...
Tags: asylum seekers, hunger strike, ethnic tamils, Indonesian, Australia
First elections in LTTE areas
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 4 months ago
Credibility COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has held elections adjacent to an area once dominated by the Tamil Tiger rebels as the first seeds of democracy sprout along the former battlefields of its recently ended civil war. But opposition parties accused the ruling coalition...
Tags: Jaffna Municipal Council, Sri Lanka, town councils, ethnic tamils, jaffna town, Tamil National Alliance, postwar elections, rebels parties, ruling coalition, low turnout
27 rebels killed in Sri Lanka clashes
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 1 year ago
Credibility Fighting raged in Vavuniya, Kilinochchi and Welioya districts in the north...Welioya's Andankulam area. The government troops said they were on the verge of evicting the rebels from their last strongholds, Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu districts in...
Tags: sri lanka, tiger, northern Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, tamils tigers, sri lankan, Colombo, Kilinochchi, ethnic tamils
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