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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #390 on: May 06, 2014, 02:52:59 PM »

This is a whole different level of wrong.

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Indonesia navy issues statement on asylum seeker boat turn-back

By Indonesia correspondent Helen Brown, staff

The crew of an asylum seeker boat turned back to Indonesia by the Australian Navy says three extra passengers were added to their boat from the Australian ships.

Indonesia's navy has issued a statement based on testimony given by the crew who were found on a wooden boat stranded on a small island in eastern Indonesia.

The crew reportedly told navy investigators two Australian warships put three extra people on board their boat - an Indonesian and two people from Albania - before they were escorted back to Indonesian waters.

They say they were in Australian waters on May 1 while taking 18 asylum seekers from India and Nepal towards Ashmore Reef.

According to the crew, the Australian ships escorted them back to Indonesian territory a day later.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-06/an-indonesia-navy-issues-statement-on-asylum-seeker-boat-turn-b/5432284

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #391 on: May 06, 2014, 03:02:06 PM »

This is a whole different level of wrong.

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Indonesia navy issues statement on asylum seeker boat turn-back

By Indonesia correspondent Helen Brown, staff

The crew of an asylum seeker boat turned back to Indonesia by the Australian Navy says three extra passengers were added to their boat from the Australian ships.

Indonesia's navy has issued a statement based on testimony given by the crew who were found on a wooden boat stranded on a small island in eastern Indonesia.

The crew reportedly told navy investigators two Australian warships put three extra people on board their boat - an Indonesian and two people from Albania - before they were escorted back to Indonesian waters.

They say they were in Australian waters on May 1 while taking 18 asylum seekers from India and Nepal towards Ashmore Reef.

According to the crew, the Australian ships escorted them back to Indonesian territory a day later.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-06/an-indonesia-navy-issues-statement-on-asylum-seeker-boat-turn-b/5432284

LMAO only three, surely they could have rustled up more than that

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #392 on: May 19, 2014, 05:56:13 PM »

Remember the fuss the Libs made when Labor was going to send refugees to Malaysia?

Well guess where the Libs are going to send them...

and we are not going to be told how much it will cost Australia.



Cambodia close to signing off on refugee deal with Australia, says government

By South-East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley


The Cambodian government is in the final stages of considering a refugee resettlement agreement with Australia and wants to sign a memorandum of understanding as soon as possible.

Cambodia's secretary of state in the foreign ministry, Ouch Borith, has told the ABC a government study of the proposal has been completed and Cambodia will deliver a counter offer to Australia within days.

The details of the negotiations are being kept secret by both nations but it could see up to 1,000 genuine refugees sent from Australia to one of the world's poorest countries.

Mr Borith would not be drawn on how much Australia would need to pay Cambodia to take refugees from Nauru, how many it was willing to accept, or where they would live.

"I cannot let you know exactly the number of the refugees that I can receive, because for one, if we decided to receive refugees, it will be our responsibility to take care of all the refugees that come to Cambodia," Mr Borith said.

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #393 on: May 19, 2014, 07:00:44 PM »
Yeah but at least Cambodia is a huge country with a positive history

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #394 on: May 20, 2014, 08:29:54 AM »
Whatever the cost is, its going to be far less than what it costs to have them here.

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #395 on: May 20, 2014, 08:32:18 AM »
That's what's its all about  :whistle

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #396 on: May 26, 2014, 06:04:18 AM »

Yes they have stopped the boats but are they creating an Australia that we will be happy to live in?

Manus Island asylum seekers in mental health crisis
 
May 26, 2014

Michael Gordon
Political editor, The Age

About half the asylum seekers in detention on Manus Island and Nauru are suffering from significant depression, stress or anxiety, according to clinical assessments.

Their situation is worse than for those in detention on the mainland and on Christmas Island, where a third are suffering major mental health problems, the assessments reveal.

In both cases, the proportion of asylum seekers with serious mental health conditions and the severity of those conditions is increasing the longer they are held in detention centres.

Fairfax Media revealed last week that Manus Island has been without a full-time psychiatrist for more than three months.

Most of the health findings are included in a report prepared by International Health and Medical Services, the organisation contracted to provide medical services in detention centres, for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

They include a spike in reports of asylum seekers on Christmas Island suffering as a result of trauma and torture, despite the cessation of boat arrivals, "indicating a high level of need for torture and trauma counselling services on the island".

The IHMS findings also indicate the number of people in immigration detention who have clinical symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder is well over 1000, the report says. The findings, obtained by Fairfax Media, will be seized upon by opponents of mandatory and indefinite detention as the most credible evidence yet that its toll on the mental health of asylum seekers is entirely predictable.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-island-asylum-seekers-in-mental-health-crisis-20140525-38wwd.html#ixzz32l9NTjZy

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #397 on: May 26, 2014, 08:31:12 AM »
"Yes they have stopped the boats"

Exactly the rest is irrelevant

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #398 on: May 26, 2014, 01:28:39 PM »
The trains run on time

(Germany 1942)

The rest is irrelevant

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #399 on: May 28, 2014, 10:31:24 PM »
They shouldn't be kept in detention.

They should be put on the first plane straight back where they came from.

End of story.

It's not Australia's responsibility.

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #400 on: May 29, 2014, 10:53:03 AM »
Also - anyone who isn't white should pee right off also

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #401 on: May 29, 2014, 12:48:26 PM »
or Christian........



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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #402 on: May 29, 2014, 12:55:06 PM »
Anglicanism only policy 

Get onto it Tony  :bow

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #403 on: May 29, 2014, 10:00:32 PM »
I'm married to a Filipino and far from racist.

We did things the right way and went through the proper channels.

Very different to just turning up and demanding entry.

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Re: Stopping the boats
« Reply #404 on: May 29, 2014, 11:56:44 PM »
Anglicanism only policy 

Get onto it Tony  :bow

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