People-smugglers’ scare tactic
PEOPLE-SMUGGLERS are exploiting the political deadlock over border security policy by running a “closing down sale”.
Immigration
Jakarta to police smuggler hotspots
INDONESIAN police are asking Australia to help establish two new posts on the West Java coast to squeeze people-smugglers.
People-smuggling suspects denied rights
INDONESIAN juveniles accused of people-smuggling are routinely being denied their right to silence by Australian authorities
Police rejecting detainee duties
NSW police were asked to undergo “cultural sensitivity” training in order to better manage Sydney’s Villawood detention centre.
People-smuggler terms in Green sights
THE Greens will use the first parliamentary week to try to outlaw mandatory five-year jail terms for people-smugglers.
Indonesians foil asylum bid
THE Indonesian police and navy have foiled an attempted shipment of 95 asylum-seekers to Christmas Island.
Brown wants to keep Pontville
GREENS leader Bob Brown is demanding the Gillard government keep the $15 million Pontville detention centre open.
Indonesians foil asylum bid
THE Indonesian police and navy have foiled an attempted shipment of 95 asylum-seekers to Christmas Island.
Libs to reopen bigger Nauru centre
THE Coalition has pledged to reopen an asylum-seeker processing centre on Nauru.
Disaster raises asylum pressure
A BOAT with up to 30 asylum-seekers has sunk off the coast of Malaysia, claiming at least eight lives.
37 of 3237 boatpeople had passports
ASYLUM-SEEKERS are discarding their passports at soaring rates, sparking renewed calls for boatpeople to be penalised.
Nauru centre rebuild dwarfs resorts
IT’S an island with 700 luxury rooms and villas, a choice of excellent restaurants, tennis courts, pools and well-trained staff.
Nauru rebuild’s ‘luxury costs’
THE development cost per room for reopening the centre would be far more than the average for a top-of-the range US full luxury resort.
Nauru costings fanciful, says Abbott
TONY Abbott has slammed a $2 billion government estimate of the cost of restarting asylum-seeker processing on Nauru.
Rights row flares with Indonesia
INDONESIA’S human rights commission has called on the country’s government to reconsider aid it receives from Australia
Parties clash on cost of Nauru
THE feud between Labor and the Coalition on asylum policy became a duel over costs yesterday.
Defence rejects Abbott boat plan
MILITARY lawyers and naval commanders say the plan to order warships to tow asylum-seeker boats back to Indonesia is unworkable.
$2bn for Nauru solution: Bowen
LABOR says the Coalition’s plan to process detainees on Nauru would cost $2 billion over four years while catering for just 750 people.
Abbott `putting RAN lives on line’
JULIA Gillard has accused Tony Abbott of being prepared to risk Australian lives in his determination to turn back asylum boats
Offshore asylum hopes hit rocks
TALKS between Labor and the Coalition aimed at ending the impasse over asylum policy have failed
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