Vote 1 for election day long weekend Nov 13, 2009
Yes folks we are right up there with notables such as Liechtenstein, Nauru, Uruguay and Ecuador. How can it be a good thing to force people to vote about somethign they don't believe in or simply are not motivated to take any interest in. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Time to change course for Christmas Island, PM Nov 12, 2009
And, though those not accepted by New Zealand went to Nauru for processing as part of the ''Pacific Solution'', most eventually received refugee status and settled in Australia. The Rudd Government should not be recapitulating this bitter history. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Captain Rudd's preferred course - a little to the right Oct 31, 2009
The boat people are locked up and processed on Australian territory, and Christmas Island in particular, rather than in Nauru or Papua New Guinea. Women and children are no longer caged behind razorwire, but that was a Howard policy from 2005 that Labor has inherited. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Wielding the whip on asylum seekers Oct 27, 2009
Australia had some say about how asylum seekers were handled in Nauru and Manus Island. We will have less influence about what goes on in Indonesian detention centres. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Smith calm amid storm Oct 26, 2009
Or seeking to somehow discharge our humanitarian and legal obligations by processing people on Manus Island and Nauru. . (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Another 'asylum seeker' boat intercepted Oct 23, 2009
"The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomed the federal government's decision to close the offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, but we remain concerned about the mandatory detention and offshore processing of asylum seekers on Christmas Island," Commission president Cathy Branson, QC, said. The comments come as the federal government pursues a strategy that would see asylum seekers headed for Australia processed on Indonesian soil. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Razor wire returns Oct 18, 2009
Again, no. Of those sent to Nauru under the so-called solution, 61 per cent of people found to be refugees were ultimately settled in Australia. Uninvited refugees may offend a sense of order, but escaping persecution is not always an orderly business. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
* SYLVANIA, OHIO Jul 5, 2009
After his election in 2007, Rudd ended the Pacific solution of his predecessor John Howard, closing down a much-criticized processing center on the tiny island nation of Nauru. This story has been viewed 265 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Fiji, Facing Suspension From Pacific Forum, Rejects Calling New Elections May 1, 2009
Along with Fiji, Australia and New Zealand it includes Tonga, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. To contact the reporter on this story: in Sydney at. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Australian Hospitals Treat Burns Victims After Fire on Asylum Seeker Boat Apr 17, 2009
The government last year closed detention centers on the Pacific island of Nauru and on Manus, a province in Papua New Guinea. All asylum seekers intercepted at sea will now be detained on Christmas Island while they undergo checks. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Four Tampa refugees let in after second journey Mar 28, 2009
He said 11 other Tampa survivors - who had failed to win refugee status after months on Nauru - were killed by the Taliban when they returned to Afghanistan. The assertions have prompted calls for an inquiry into the Howard government's so-called Pacific solution, introduced after the Tampa's arrival, under which asylum seekers intercepted before they reached Australia were processed on Nauru, or Manus Island, Papua New Guinea ... Mr Mohammady said that after 17 months on Nauru he was sent back... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Battle for the state's top job Feb 18, 2009
On one broadcast, however, Fasi accused me of trying to bribe the owner of an Italian restaurant located in one of the Nauru Towers near Ala Moana Beach Park. This I could not ignore. (Honolulu Advertiser)
