Thursday, April 13, 2006

Australia even less hospitable to refugees / Monsters & Critics, 13 Apr 2006

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Sid Astbury
"European politicians keen to carbon-copy Canberra's tough stand on asylum-seekers take note: the template they envy and which made Australia's shores among the world's least inviting is about to be recast in even sterner stuff.
New arrivals, no matter where they land, won't have the luxury of being locked up and processed at one of the country's grim onshore immigration detention centres. All, regardless of where they land, will be shipped to even bleaker offshore processing zones where those found to be genuine refugees will not have an automatic right to be settled in Australia. "