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August 31st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Men at the high-security detention centre on Christmas Island spray hoses to celebrate the High Court’s decision yesterday Picture: Colin Murty
Source: The Australian
People cheered inside Christmas Island’s detention camps after learning they had been spared deportation.
“They’re whooping it up and very happy, dancing and partying,” a person who witnessed the celebrations said.
The 34 children and their parents cheered from within the family camp within minutes of hearing of the High Court decision yesterday via their lawyer David Manne and television news.
Dancing and laughing followed and the screeches of excited children could be heard throughout the day.
On the other side of the island, at the high-security detention centre, the single adult men played a drum and clapped to the beat. Others punched the air with joy after firing water out of a hose.
Some of the 57 unaccompanied minors among the 335 people affected by the decision were seen playing pool at their compound on the outskirts of the jungle.
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The scenes of jubilation were in stark contrast to those of desperation just over three weeks ago when some of the asylum-seekers went on a hunger strike in protest at the Gillard government’s plan to deport them to Malaysia.
The five boatloads of people have now been detained on the island for up to four weeks and during that time the children have been unable to go to school or visit the recreation centre next door while awaiting their fate.
From Monday, children from the family camp will be allowed to go to school for the first time, The Australian understands.
Christmas Island administrator Brian Lacey said he suspected the 335 asylum-seekers would now have their claims processed on the island.
General secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers Kaye Bernard called for the asylum-seekers to have their refugee claims processed in Australia and in a reasonable timeframe: “These people are deserving of being processed in Australia. That’s what we signed up for and we shouldn’t be shirking our responsibilities.”
Shire of Christmas Island president Gordon Thomson welcomed the decision.
“It’s a relief to the people who are working in the detention centres and to the people who are detained in the detention centres.
“t’s a relief because I think everybody must have a sense that the High Court made the correct decision; you can’t turn people away.”
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