Refugee Update - Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Nauru

Oct 19, 2014 13:23

Indonesia's president-elect Joko Widodo has told our PM it's unacceptable for the Australian navy to enter Indonesian waters when turning back asylum seeker boats. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison retorted that Indonesia has benefitted from the turnbacks, as they have stopped people-smuggling, which the haven't. Neither country mentioned the ( Read more... )

manus island, australia, refugees, indonesia, nauru

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hnpcc October 22 2014, 06:55:33 UTC
Every time I think I can't hear anything worse about this situation they manage to come up with something new.

I mean really, sanitary napkins??? You have to be kidding me right?

And of course we're going to 'resettle' people in PNG. If I were being resettled there I'd be making my way down to the free trade zone in the Torres Strait and seeing how far I could get.

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dreamer_easy October 22 2014, 10:33:54 UTC
I cling to the hope that, like so many others who were told they would never be Australians, eventually, all of these poor devils will settle here - betrayed and damaged, but finally safe and free.

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