Very long-term readers of New Mandala may recall my posts starting in August 2006 about the Rohingya asylum-seekers the Australian government incarcerated on Nauru.
According to a report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald they will now be allowed to settle in Australia. Some sense seems to have finally prevailed in the way Australia deals with “unauthorised arrivals”. Of course, it’s a great pity that these men seeking refuge from the Burmese dictatorship had to wait so long for compassion and justice to prevail.
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1 Grasshopper // Dec 8, 2007 at 9:54 am
I wonder what would have happened to these people had the Liberal Party won the election. Maybe they could have applied for Nauru permanent residency! Something has to change because the fate of asylum seekers shouldn’t reside on a particular government, but a standard that can be applied constantly. Hopefully it would be a standard where there would be no cues to jump.
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