PM poised for new asylum-seeker talks
THE Gillard government is poised for fresh negotiations with the opposition over a bipartisan agreement on offshore refugee processing.
THE Gillard government is poised for fresh negotiations with the opposition over a bipartisan agreement on offshore refugee processing.
TWO key crossbench MPs have called for co-operation to break the political impasse over asylum-seeker policy.
THE opposition wants the government to come up with a “serious proposal” if it hopes to win Coalition support for offshore processing.
ATENA Ardani’s parents and her sister are missing and there is no realistic hope for them after the latest asylum-seeker boat tragedy.
THE Greens and Labor’s Left have mounted a spirited defence for maintaining onshore-only processing of asylum-seekers.
MORE survivors have been found from the asylum-seeker boat which sank off Indonesia, with the feared death of up to 200 people.
LABOR has called for the opposition to work “sensibly” with the government to restore offshore processing following the boatpeople tragedy.
A DAMNING coroner’s report has accused detention centre authorities of failing to properly care for three asylum-seekers who later took their own lives.
SURVIVORS of the Indonesian asylum boat disaster have told how the captain escaped the sinking vessel, leaving just 19 life jackets for over 200 people.
INDONESIAN police are investigating whether people-smuggling kingpin Sayed Abbas is linked to an asylum boat that sank off Java.
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police will be stripped of their role in judging the age of Indonesian crew accused of people-smuggling
BORDER protection officials yesterday intercepted a boat carrying 78 suspected asylum-seekers northeast of Christmas Island
THE largest boatload of asylum-seekers to arrive since 2009, and the sixth in a week, has landed on Christmas Island.
MORE than 220 asylum seekers have arrived in 24 hours, in a sign that people smugglers are exploiting the impasse over border protection.
IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Bowen says the government will again try to get its Malaysia Solution through parliament.
BRENDAN O’Connor’s talks in Jakarta come amid signs last month’s asylum-seeker surge will continue.
THE collapse of offshore processing appears to be reviving long-dormant smuggling markets.
FEDERAL prosecutors will no longer oppose bail for accused Indonesian people-smugglers who claim to be underage.
THE nation’s newest detention centre, 35km southeast of Darwin, is unfit for humans, according to refugee advocates.
A COURT has found a people-smuggler was probably under 18 when he was arrested despite a wrist x-ray indicating he was older.
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