Onshore, offshore: both sides stick to their guns
THE Greens and Labor’s Left have mounted a spirited defence for maintaining onshore-only processing of asylum-seekers.
Immigration
More boat survivors picked up
MORE survivors have been found from the asylum-seeker boat which sank off Indonesia, with the feared death of up to 200 people.
Plea for end to asylum impasse
LABOR has called for the opposition to work “sensibly” with the government to restore offshore processing following the boatpeople tragedy.
Staff slammed over detention deaths
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.
Skipper fled as boatpeople drowned
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.
Boat tragedy linked to smuggling boss
INDONESIAN police are investigating whether people-smuggling kingpin Sayed Abbas is linked to an asylum boat that sank off Java.
Pell urges both sides to agree
AUSTRALIA’S senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, has spoken in favour of offshore processing of asylum-seekers.
Greens stand by policy on boatpeople
MARK Latham lashes advocates of onshore processing
Fears for missing after asylum boat sinks
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.
People-smuggling laws ‘lead to tragedy’
THE latest boat disaster is proof Labor’s policies are risking lives, lawyers acting for survivors of the Christmas Island disaster say.
Hundreds missing as asylum boat sinks
AN OVERCROWDED boat suspected to be heading to Australia and carrying hundreds of asylum-seekers has sunk off Indonesia.
Onshore processing ‘killing boatpeople’
FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham has blamed “so-called compassionate” politicians who support onshore processing for the deaths of asylum-seekers.
Boatpeople just keep coming
AN asylum-seeker boat intercepted today is the eighth vessel to arrive in Australian waters within the past fortnight.
A sad Christmas Island return
SAYED Hossien Hossieni finally said goodbye to his wife Mariem yesterday as he stood on the treacherous Christmas Island coastline.
Family should be with refugee: court
THE High Court yesterday overturned a decision barring the family of a refugee from joining him in Australia.
Anniversary of boat deaths
TWELVE months on from the Christmas Island boat crash, islanders and survivors will this morning remember the horrific day.
Detainee ‘touched girls’ chests’
AN immigration detainee allegedly tried to touch the chests of a group of primary school girls during a day trip to a Darwin pool.
New boat reinforces asylum-seeker fears
A MASSIVE surge in asylum-seeker arrivals has far exceeded the worst-case scenario painted by immigration officials.
Surge adds heat on Christmas Island
A SURGE in boat arrivals has nearly doubled asylum-seekers detained on Christmas Island, and another boatload is expected today.
Navy intercepts asylum boat carrying 54
THE Navy has intercepted a boat carrying 54 suspected asylum-seekers off the coast of Western Australia.
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