From: The Australian SEVENTY Afghan detainees have flown from Christmas Island to the mainland, as both Labor and the Coalition again pledged to 'stop the boats'. The detainees were flown to join 319 other asylum-seekers in the refurbished and
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is in Jakarta today for talks on Australia's proposal for a regional processing centre for asylum seekers. Australia currently processes refugee claims on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. But with that
MAINLAND MOVE: Ten more asylum seekers were moved from Christmas Island to the Leonora detention centre yesterday. Source: The Australian VIDEO: Gillard says she never suggested East Timor is the only location being considered for a refugee centre.
President Reagan has named Carl Dillery to be the United States Ambassador to Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu and the Republic of Kiribati, the White House announced today. He will replace Fred J. Eckert. Mr. Dillery, a career Foreign Service officer, has previously served in Brussels, London and Nicosia. Since 1982 he has been director of the State Department's Office of United Nations Political Affairs.
The opposition has seized on the arrival of a boatload of Vietnamese asylum seekers at Christmas Island as evidence that word is spreading about weak Australian border protection. The boat, carrying men, women and children who crewed it themselves, was
Some two years ago during President Koroma’s first visit to the Southern Province as Father of the Nation, his loyal Resident Minister for the South, Hon. Musa Tarawally 'unveiled' thousands of kamajors who openly pledged their loyalty to President
Many of the items came from remote places in Papua New Guinea. [ABC] A group of rare artefacts from around the Pacific and New Zealand has fetched almost $US3 million at auction in Paris. Over 30 objects from Vanuatu, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and New
The federal government has been accused of planning to re-open a "hell hole" immigration detention centre that previously drove inmates to attempt suicide.The prediction comes as another 95 Afghan men on Sunday are transferred from Christmas Island to
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