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Tag Archives: asylum seeker policy
Australian Navy ‘strays’ into Indonesian waters
There is much to read in to what has happened recently in the straying of Australian Navy vessels into Indonesian sovereign waters and the ire this has raised in the officials of their government. From a party that espouses ‘sovereignty’ one would think … Continue reading
Abbott and the Archipelago
The recent lecturing of the Abbott government to the Indonesian government about what Australia will do about asylum-seeker boats is an affront to Indonesian sovereignty on several levels. Firstly, we (that is Western Europeans) forced the concept of sovereignty on to Asia and for us to … Continue reading
There is Trouble in Paradise
According to SBS World News (29, July, 2013) Fiji’s foreign minister ‘launched an acidic broadside against the [Australian] governments plan to send asylum seekers [to] Papua New Guinea’ and further warned that it ‘could alter the social fabric of the … Continue reading