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Boat intercepted with 55 aboard
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 17 days ago
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It is the 44th boat of suspected asylum seekers to arrive in Australian waters this year. Ashmore Islands, and is believed to be carrying 53 passengers and two crew, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said in a statement. The group will be transferred...
Tags: Indonesian, Australian, asylum seekers, detention centre, lankan asylum, Christmas Island, prime minister, customs vessel, christmas islands, Kevin Rudd, Indonesia, Jakarta, Rudd, Bruce Haigh, John Howard, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Prime Ministers of Australia, Politics, Siev 36, Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel, Immigration to Australia, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Refugee, Hospitality Recreation, Javanese people, SIEV X, Tampa affair, Simon Crean, Right of asylum, Demography, Pacific Solution, Forced migration, Refugees, Social Issues
RI agrees to detain 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers
Tanjung Pinang :: Indonesia | 19 days ago
Credibility The group will be accommodated for up to six months, with Australia agreeing to cover the costs, Riau Law and Human Rights Office chief I Gede Widiharta told The Jakarta Post here on Tuesday. A group of 22 of the asylum seekers were brought to the detention...
Tags: asylum seekers, Indonesian, Australia, sri lankan, Oceanic Viking, Kevin Rudd, Jakarta Post, lankan asylum, Dr Sujatmiko, Indonesia, Tanjung Pinang, Carbon finance, Emissions trading, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Rudd, Environment, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Air pollution, Politics, Demography, Right of asylum, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Sri Lanka, Immigration to Australia, Forced migration, Refugees, Pacific Solution, Alexander Downer, Howard Government, Immigration detention, Refugee, Bintan Island
Aid agency staff withdraw over hostage fears
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 21 days ago
Credibility Standoff...Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board their boat in the port of Merak...The International Organisation for Migration has withdrawn its staff from a dock at a port in north-western Java, fearing they could be taken hostage by desperate Sri Lankan...
Tags: sri lankan, asylum seekers, Indonesia, lankan asylum, Jakarta, International Organization for Migration, Refugee, Tamil people, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Dravidian peoples, Human migration, Social Issues, Riau, Riau Archipelago, Sri Lanka, Bintan Island, Boat people, Forced migration, Refugees, War Conflict, Politics, Gatot Soebroto, Pacific Solution, Javanese people, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Our newest Australians
Sydney :: Australia | 23 days ago
Credibility 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
Settling Tamils crucial to stop asylum boats
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 26 days ago
Credibility The former high commissioner to India, John McCarthy, is in Sri Lanka, from where most of the current influx of asylum seekers originate. Mr McCarthy says the issue requires a joint law-enforcement and humanitarian-based solution...John McCarthy has been...
Tags: asylum seekers, Indonesian, sri lankan, Sri Lanka, Australian, John McCarthy, australians customs, customs vessel, lankan asylum, Mr McCarthy
Rudd unmoved as asylum impasse continues
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Mr Rudd again hit the airwaves this morning to shore up public support for the Government's border protection policies in the wake of this week's bad Newspoll result for Labor...With the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers now spending their 19th day on board...
Tags: Indonesian, sri lankan, Sri Lanka, asylum seekers, Australia, Mr Rudd, lankan asylum, christmas islands
Asylum seekers may stay in Indonesian hotels
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Some of the 260 Sri Lankan asylum seekers detained in Indonesia may end up in hotels because detention centres there are too full, an immigration official says. The ethnic Tamils are refusing to leave their wooden boat in Merak Harbour after being intercepted...
Tags: asylum seekers, Australian, hunger strike, sri lankan, Indonesian Navy, Kevin Rudd, lankan asylum, prime minister, tamil asylum, minister kevin
Hospitals are sick: Rudd
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Australian Medical Association today released its report card, saying many hospitals failed to reach performance benchmarks. "I basically agree with them," Mr Rudd told reporters in Murray Bridge, east of Adelaide. "There is a real problem out there....
Tags: Indonesian, sri lankan, asylum seekers, Australian Medical Association, lankan asylum, Christmas Island, gas canisters, reporters card, public hospitals
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