As part of its 2010 immigration election platform, the Liberal Party announced that it would reintroduce the ‘45-day rule’ for onshore protection applicants. The 45-day rule (which came into force in 1997 and subsequently abolished by the Labor Party in 2007) required asylum seekers who had arrived in the country legally by plane and on
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Tony Abbott has promised that if elected, placing a phone call to the president of Nauru would be a first-day priority and that the tiny island’s detention centres would be reopened in a matter of weeks. Shadow immigration spokesman Scott Morrison may be asking Mr. Abbott to reconsider this timeline after his inspection of the
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We are continuously bombarded with endless political plans on how to get tough on asylum seekers and how stop people seeking asylum. Whether it’s the ill-thought out and illegal turning back of the boats or the offshore processing of asylum seekers, each major political party seems hell bent on finding new ways of detaining or denying asylum seekers their most basic human rights.
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ne of the most enduring myths in the asylum seeker debate is that once asylum seekers arrive in Australia, they are treated to the good life. Not a week passes without ASRC receiving an email complaining that asylum seekers are getting 4 times what a pensioner does, and that asylum seekers are flushed with support from the Federal government.
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Asylum seekers arriving by boat have, once again, become a hot button political issue in this year’s election. We have returned to the worst of the Tampa election year, where asylum seekers have once again become a political football.
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