Eight arrested over boat tragedy
INDONESIAN police have arrested eight people over last weekend’s asylum boat tragedy, as the confirmed death toll hit 90.
INDONESIAN police have arrested eight people over last weekend’s asylum boat tragedy, as the confirmed death toll hit 90.
NAURU’S government had its first contact from the Gillard government on the asylum-seeker issue yesterday.
THE Gillard government has warned that “hundreds of people” in several illegal boats could arrive in Australia before the New Year.
TALKS between Labor and the Coalition have failed to reach a compromise agreement on offshore processing of asylum-seekers.
TONY Abbott is refusing to accept Labor’s Malaysia Solution despite the government embracing his plan to reopen a facility on Nauru.
THE reinstatement of temporary protection visas appears to be the sticking point in an offshore processing deal between Labor and the Coalition.
FEARED orphaned in the asylum-seeker boat tragedy off Java, Atena Hardani became the disaster’s face of despair.
THE Gillard government will make a formal offer to restart asylum-seeker processing on Nauru if the Coalition supports its Malaysia Solution.
WAYNE SWAN has accused Tony Abbott of playing politics while asylum-seekers die, as Labor seeks ways to revive offshore processing.
BOATS and helicopters have searched the ocean around Bali for more victims of the latest asylum-seeker disaster, with 74 bodies found so far.
AUSTRALIA’S senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, has spoken in favour of offshore processing of asylum-seekers.
MARK Latham lashes advocates of onshore processing
MORE than 80 asylum-seekers have been rescued but up to another 160 are missing after an overcrowded boat bound for Australia sank off Indonesia.
THE latest boat disaster is proof Labor’s policies are risking lives, lawyers acting for survivors of the Christmas Island disaster say.
AN OVERCROWDED boat suspected to be heading to Australia and carrying hundreds of asylum-seekers has sunk off Indonesia.
FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham has blamed “so-called compassionate” politicians who support onshore processing for the deaths of asylum-seekers.
AN asylum-seeker boat intercepted today is the eighth vessel to arrive in Australian waters within the past fortnight.
SAYED Hossien Hossieni finally said goodbye to his wife Mariem yesterday as he stood on the treacherous Christmas Island coastline.
THE High Court yesterday overturned a decision barring the family of a refugee from joining him in Australia.
TWELVE months on from the Christmas Island boat crash, islanders and survivors will this morning remember the horrific day.
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