Nauru agrees to settle a handful of boat people Socialist Kevin Rudd offers $29 million in aid to get Nauru to agree today to “resettle” refugees that we send there. Nauru’s population: 9400. How many refugees will it take? A hundred? Why this smokescreen? Maybe this is one reason: Opposition Leader Belden Namah has resurrected his court challenge on the Government’s decision on Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island. The Opposition’s court challenge was filed yesterday as the first group of asylum seekers numbering 40 arrived on the island with the new resettlement policy agreed between Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and Australia’s Kevin Rudd coming in to play… In the application that was filed yesterday, the Opposition leader is requesting the Court to declare that the proper interpretation or application of Section 42 of the Constitution is that transferees brought to Papua New Guinea by Australian Government and detained at the relocation centre on Manus Island is contrary to the constitutional rights of the transferees to personal liberty guaranteed by Section 42 of the Constitution; and that Section 42(i)(g) of the Constitution does not apply to transferees under the MoU. Maybe this is another - given there are fewer than 500 places in Papua New Guinea at the moment, and three times that many boat people have already arrived since Rudd vowed they’d all be sent there: ...
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 08:52:33 +0000
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