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UN refugee agency faults Australian policy
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
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THE UN refugee agency has taken Australia to task over a tough new policy that allows boat people who reach its mainland to be sent to remote Nauru or Papua New Guinea for detention while their asylum claims are processed. The so-called "excision"
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Australia extends reach of tough refugee regulation to mainland
Geraldton :: Australia | 9 days ago
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Australia on Thursday extended tough refugee policies to any asylum-seeker who lands on its mainland, allowing them to be banished to remote Nauru or Papua New Guinea for detention. Until now, the government only had powers to send boatpeople for
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Another blowout expected in boat budget
Sydney :: Australia | 17 days ago
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THE federal government is likely to reveal another big blowout in managing asylum seekers in next Tuesday's budget. Labor estimated earlier this year it would spend about $1.3 billion in 2013/14 managing would-be refugees who arrived in Australia by
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Libs urge help for 'dumped' boat people
Sydney :: Australia | 21 days ago
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His comments followed revelations in The Sunday Age last week that many of the nation's 10,327 asylum seekers released on bridging visas because of overcrowding in detention centres were struggling on the fortnightly allowance they received from the
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Families may be moved out of Manus: oppn
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 26 days ago
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Mr Morrison's comments come a day after former staff at the Papua New Guinea centre told ABC's Four Corners program that it lacked proper medical supplies and was not fit for children. There are now 30 children in the Manus facility. "We understand
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Doctor says Manus Island a 'disaster' for children
Yaren :: Nauru | 27 days ago
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A doctor who worked at the immigration centre on Manus Island says he informed authorities that the facility was inappropriate for children well before they were sent there, but nothing was done about it. ABC1's Four Corners program has gained
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Nauru case challenges lawfulness of detention
Yaren :: Nauru | 1 month ago
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The principle of habeas corpus which translates to "thou shalt have the body" is used to challenge the lawfulness of detention. Mr Williams is expected to argue that there is insufficient evidence to hold asylum seekers kept in the processing centre
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Asylum boat intercepted near Christmas Island
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 1 month ago
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A suspected asylum seeker boat carrying 45 people was intercepted east of Christmas Island this afternoon. It was the sixth vessel in the past week stopped by Australian border patrols near Christmas Island...A spokeswoman said there were 42
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Boat with 150 asylum seekers intercepted near Christmas Island
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 month ago
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The Federal Government says because they asylum seekers arrived by boat and without visas, they could be sent either to Manus Island or Nauru. A boat carrying 97 asylum seekers was also intercepted near Christmas Island on Tuesday. Topics:
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Aust has obligation to help refugees: govt
Geraldton :: Australia | 1 month ago
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Minister Brendan O'Connor insists the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who managed to reach Geraldton on a boat, and were later returned home, were not genuine refugees. Of the 66 asylum seekers who reached the West Australian port last week, 38 were
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