Australia has agreed to provide an additional $4.4 million to enhance links between the two nations' search and rescue agencies.
$4.4m was the invoice from Indonesia for rescuing last week's asylum seekers from their waters and returning the survivors to them.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-04/australia-indonesia-hold-asylum-seeker-co/4243338
And why would she implement TPVs when it's clear her actions show she wants as many as possible to come here. Is it for votes? What will happen when the arrivals form their own party - they won't be voting labor then, imo.
Scott Morrison shouldn't be so silly."From today, any boat and any person who turns up on a boat must go to Nauru - no exception," Mr Morrison said.
"They all must go to Nauru from this point on."
AUSTRALIAN authorities have intercepted a boat carrying 63 suspected asylum seekers off the West Australian coast.
It is the third boat intercepted by authorities in the past 24 hours and brings to 202 the number of passengers who have arrived in that time.
The minister revealed Transfield, operator of Melbourne's Eastlink, will cook and clean for asylum seekers and provide transport on Nauru.
That's a sensible idea. And surely the asylum seekers themselves would prefer to be constructively occupied.And do we have to provide cleaning and cooking services as well? Why aren't the arrivals expected to help care for themselves? Isn't this just fostering a sense of "no responsibility"? Why not give them rosters?
The legislative instrument tabled by Mr Bowen says it is estimated 704 asylum seekers have died at sea since October 2009, and the cost to the budget over the next four years due to the surge in arrivals is not more than $5 billion.
Mr Keke also anticipates possible delays to the transfer of asylum seekers because of a potential legal challenge to Australia's offshore processing legislation.
As Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's signed declaration on Nauru as a regional processing country went to the Senate for approval yesterday, Liberal frontbencher Scott Morrison said the government must bear all responsibility for the success or failure of Nauru.
"If the government seeks support from the Coalition down the track and they have failed to take our advice and continued to resist the implementation of the full suite of Howard government measures, if they wait as Nauru fills up and fills up, our policy will be this -- you break it, you own it," the opposition immigration spokesman said.
Labor confirmed on Monday it remained in talks with the Malaysian government over the prospect of reviving the Malaysia Solution, but Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare yesterday rejected Coalition calls to tow back asylum-seeker boats, saying the policy risked the lives of navy personnel and asylum-seekers.
Labor's lazy legislation ??
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-12/nauru-doesnt-want-force-used-against-asylum-seekers/4256032
Labor will continue to flounder and the Opposition will continue to watch.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...a-plan-will-fail/story-fn59niix-1226472147475
you break it, you own it," the opposition immigration spokesman said.
Wake up Australia we are being stupid.
We need this like a hole in the head.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-15/anti-us-protests-hit-sydney/4263372
Look at Europe.
AUSTRALIA has asked for clearance to send aircraft into Indonesian airspace to join the search for survivors of an asylum-seeker boat believed to have capsized off Java's south-west coast.
By 1pm Jakarta time two merchant vessels in the area had rescued 189 people from the wooden fishing vessel.
The boat, believed to be carrying about 200 passengers, was previously notified about 40 nautical miles south of Panaitan Island early today
Another boat capsizes - when will this government stop the pull factor of permanent residency and re-introduce TPVs:
Read more: Australia sends four aircraft to search for capsized asylum boat
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