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August 27th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
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Lawyers for an Iranian man have secured a High Court directions hearing for a challenge to the Federal Government’s new offshore processing policy.
The man had hoped to apply for refugee status in Australia but, under the Government’s new asylum seeker deal with Papua New Guinea, he was sent to Manus Island.
Under the deal, new arrivals are not allowed to settle in Australia but are instead moved to PNG for processing and re-settlement.
Next week’s challenge, the first to the policy, will seek to have the declaration of PNG as a processing country set aside and to have the man returned to Australia.
The High Court is no stranger to such issues, having struck down another plan for offshore processing in Malaysia in 2011.
The initial hearing will be on September 5.
Topics:
immigration,
community-and-society,
refugees,
laws,
international-law,
australia,
asia,
papua-new-guinea
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Source Article from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-27/high-court-sets-date-for-png-asylum-deal-challenge/4916442
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