Tag: asylum seekers

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

A strategy to stop asylum seeker boat arrivals is at the top of Tony Abbott’s to-do list for next week after his ministry is sworn in.

Australia’s incoming prime minister Tony Abbott has spent the first working day of his government getting things in order, as Labor looks for a leader.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As the federal election looms, we look at the top five quotes that have shaped the political careers of the two leaders who will go head to head in a bid to lead the nation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his challenger Tony Abbott.

ELECTION13 | Liberal candidate for Lindsay Fiona Scott has blamed traffic congestion in western Sydney on an influx of asylum seekers under the Labor government.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With conscience issues likely to come to parliament in the coming term, Bob Katter and Clive Palmer have given their members some flexibility.

American actor Matt Damon has entered into Australia's asylum seeker debate while visiting Sydney to promote his new film Elysium.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As the 2013 election looms we take an in-depth look at the two leaders going head to head, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The Opposition have called on the Rudd government to withdraw advertisements regarding reforms to their asylum seeker policy, which were paid for with public funds.

Papua New Guinea wasn't seeking economic gain when it agreed to open a processing centre for asylum seekers trying to get into Australia, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With the announcement of the 7 September election, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have made a first pitch to voters.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With the Australian federal election announced for 7 September 2013, we look at the major parties position on key issues for voters.

Less than a week since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his PNG solution the first asylum seekers have arrived on Manus Island for processing.

A prominent former US diplomat has criticised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to relocate asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea, and has referred to the Australian defence budget as "paltry".

WA Coroner Alastair Hope says all 102 lives lost in the Siev 358 asylum seeker boat tragedy could have been saved if authorities had responded sooner.

The Nauru “tent city” solution proposed by the Coalition has been blighted by claims that the visit to the island by Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and a News Corp journalist were sponsored by a private company who may profit from the policy.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's recently revealed reforms to asylum seeker policy would send gay refugees to Papua New Guinea despite the country's strict laws against homosexuality.

The recently announced ‘PNG solution’ has led many Australian expats to consider the question of how we want our country to be viewed by the rest of the world. Here, TIMOTHY MAJOR asks Kevin Rudd: What do we stand for as a nation?

Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer has announced his support for on-shore processing of asylum seekers, claiming that reforms to the system would save $5 billion from the Australian budget.

Labor and the coalition have continued the blame-game over asylum seeker boat arrivals, after another boat sank and claims of rape on Manus Island.

Kevin Rudd’s tough new stance on asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat has boosted the ALP’s standings on the issue, the latest Newspoll shows.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has accused Opposition leader Tony Abbott of undermining the tough message on people smugglers.

BREAKING | A riot has broken out on Nauru, leading to around 300 asylum seekers escaping from the island's detention centre. This break-out comes in the aftermath of Australian PM Kevin Rudd's announcement of a new hard-line approach to boat people.

Prime Minister Rudd announces no asylum seekers arriving by boat will resettle in Australia under new deal with PNG.

Four people died yesterday when a boat carrying 150 asylum seekers capsized off the coast of Christmas Island.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has said that elite SAS troops should be sent on-board boats carrying asylum seekers that threaten self-harm in an attempt to be allowed into Australia.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is in Indonesia for talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the asylum seeker issue and trade.

Former federal Labor leader Mark Latham has urged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to adopt the Coalition’s policy of sending boats carrying asylum seekers back into Indonesian waters in order to address the severity of the people smuggling issue.

Australian border protection authorities won’t yet recover the bodies of dead asylum seekers near Christmas Island.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has rejected Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s accusation that Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop had “embarrassed the nation” by claiming that the Indonesian government supported the Coalition’s policy to turn back the boats of asylum seekers if elected later this year.

When dressed in a cardboard box depicting the controversial and divisive topic of asylum seekers, there’s bound to be some people that consider it offensive. SHANNON GILLIES even thought she may have gone a bit too far with her fancy dress costume, but that was until she read a story ...