Rudd’s hard-line approach will be disastrous
The plan to send all boat-arriving asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea — and to resettle there all who qualify as genuine refugees — is a cynical abandonment by Australia of its responsibilities under the UN refugee convention, one that can be considered only a ploy for votes in...
PNG Cannot Afford This Policy
How will refugees resettle in PNG? Without clan or lineage links they won’t be able to own rural land or be integrated into many social structures, writes Pacific scholar Kristian Lasslett It is hard to digest Prime Minister Rudd’s policy announcement that refugees seeking asylum in Australia will be...