Posts Tagged ‘processing’

New processing system aims to improve behaviour of detainees

Video Video Tony Abbott is refusing to accept blame for the government’s decision to abandon offshore processing. Julia Gillard has conceded the government can’t implement its controversial Malaysian people swap deal. IMMIGRATION authorities are scrambling to put in place new asylum-seeker processing arrangements that are expected to see most new arrivals out of detention within […]

Offshore processing backdown will bring boats: Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen outline the government’s position on asylum-seekers in a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Australian JULIA Gillard has predicted an increase in boat arrivals after yesterday being forced to abandon offshore processing and softening the treatment of asylum-seekers who arrive by sea. Under Labor’s […]

Fraser calls for onshore processing

Updated: 21:18, Sunday October 9, 2011 A group of prominent Australians, including former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, has called on the federal government to process refugees onshore. In an open letter to federal parliament, the group says the current debate over asylum seekers is doing tremendous damage to Australia’s international reputation. The letter said the […]

Labor bullish on Malaysia asylum-seeker processing plan

The federal government is pressing ahead with its plan to process asylum-seekers in Malaysia despite uncertainty it will have the numbers. Source: Supplied THE federal government is pressing ahead with its plan to process asylum-seekers in Malaysia despite uncertainty it will have the numbers, Labor frontbencher Greg Combet says. The government is set to try […]

Govt challenged over offshore processing

Updated: 07:56, Sunday September 18, 2011 It’s been another unhappy weekend for the federal government, with Tony Abbott indicating he’s unlikely to back plans to changes laws so asylum seekers can be sent to Malaysia, and a government minister being chased in Sydney by pro-refugee activists. The opposition leader hasn’t said yet what he will […]

Gillard wins backing on offshore processing

Print Email Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 13/09/2011 Reporter: Philippa McDonald The Prime Minister has won the support of the Labor Caucus for broad changes to the Migration Act to give her Government the power to set up offshore processing of asylum seekers and to revive the so-called Malaysia Solution. Transcript ALI MOORE, PRESENTER: The Prime […]

Abbott to consider offshore processing bill

Alexandra Kirk and staff Updated September 12, 2011 19:14:13 The Immigration Minister wants the power to send unaccompanied minors to Malaysia or Papua New Guinea. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he will consider the Prime Minister’s bill to allow offshore processing, but has reiterated his objection to her Malaysian solution. Julia Gillard has won the […]

Onshore processing a threat to social harmony, Labor told

The federal coalition says it wants the Malaysian swap deal to be scrapped for good. A RETREAT to onshore-only processing of asylum-seekers poses a risk to Australia’s social cohesion and could lead to the kind of cultural problems afflicting England and France. Advice provided to the Gillard government by senior bureaucrats says that without offshore […]

Tony Abbott warned processing refugees on mainland will cause social unrest

The Government wants to process asylum seekers off-shore. Picture: AFP Source: AFP BRINGING asylum seekers onto the Australian mainland could lead to the social unrest which has caused violence and disruption across Paris and London, Tony Abbott was warned. It comes as the Government believes 600 people a month would enter Australia without checks on […]

Processing asylum seekers: how it works

What happens now if more people smugglers’ boats are intercepted by the navy? New asylum seekers arriving by boat following yesterday High Court’s ruling will have to be processed normally within Australia, says human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC. He said the government had “no option but to process their claims for asylum in the […]

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