PNG to close one of Australia's two overseas refugee detention centers

The Manus Island immigration detention will close, and Australia must make new arrangements for the 850 asylum seeker and refugee men held there, the PNG prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has announced.

O’Neill’s announcement follows a ruling by the PNG supreme court on Tuesday that the detention of asylum seekers and refugees was illegal and unconstitutional, and it ordered the governments of Australia and PNG to immediately move to end the practise.

“Respecting this ruling, Papua New Guinea will immediately ask the Australian government to make alternative arrangements for the asylum seekers currently held at the regional processing centre,” O’Neill said.

“As I stated recently at the at the Australian Press Club, we did not anticipate the asylum seekers to be kept as long as they have at the Manus centre.”

The Manus Island facility is one of two in Australia’s offshore immigration processing regime. Both it and the one on the Pacific Island nation of Nauru, have been hugely controversial and highly criticised by the international community and human rights organisations. The Australian government provides funding and aid to the governments of PNG and Nauru to operate the centres, which house refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Australia, or surrounding waters, by boat.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/27/manus-island-detention-centre-to-close-papua-new-guinea-prime-minister-says

That's brilliant, should never have been sent there in the first place.

And The Aussie trump wannbe is Spouting "they will never be resettled here".

Thankfully I think public opinon has shifted and people are now asking "why? if they are legit refugee cant they be resettled here?"

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/coalition-losing-control-of-asylum-seeker-issue-after-manus-island-decision/news-story/4fc999379031a6b2abc9b033ee82d5bb

Not legit... just economic migrants... send them back!

Tommy Monk wrote:Not legit... just economic migrants... send them back!

In 2012, when Sri Lanka’s human rights record was reviewed by the UN, the Australian government told the Sri Lankan government to eliminate all cases of abuse, torture and mistreatment by police and security forces. Two years later, we are directly returning asylum seekers to those forces.

While most refugees from Sri Lanka are Tamils, it is a mistake to think that people belonging to the Sinhalese majority are not at risk of harm. Any critic of the government – be they journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers or opposition politicians – face serious threats to their life and personal security, including abduction, torture and enforced disappearance and death.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/08/sri-lanka-is-a-refugee-producing-country-heres-why

How many are Sri Lankans?


Plenty of nearer safe options available!

Tommy Monk wrote:How many are Sri Lankans?


Plenty of nearer safe options available!

If they're not from Sri Lanka, they're from Afghanistan and have just as much a right to seek asylum as anybody.

There is no law stipulating that people must choose a nearby country in which to seek asylum.

Tommy hasn't been accepted into the apostle jamming centre.
He won't understand you like I.

eddie wrote:Tommy hasn't been accepted into the apostle jamming centre.
He won't understand you like I.

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Oh, the mental image!

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Mental indeed. Cerebral dynasty.

No idea what you two are guffing on about...


But in response to this...


Ben said:

If they are not from Sri Lanka, they're from Afghanistan and have just as much a right to seek asylum as anybody.

There is no law stipulating that people must choose a nearby country in which to seek asylum.




I've been to Sri Lanka... beautiful part of the world... lovely people... 21million of them seem to be living there safely enough... plenty of safe places for everyone there... and plenty more safe places in nearby surrounding areas/countries too...!!!


Afghanistan is even further away from australia... is also full of safe places... also surrounded by many nearby safe places... and any coming from Afghanistan would have to travel past/through sri lanka and all the other safe places on route to Australia too!!!


Overehelming vast majority are economic migrants!!!


They have left safety... travelled through numerous other places of safety... bypassing numerous other nearer places of safety... heading towards a place much much further away... seemingly having plenty of money to pay their way to get there too so hardly destitute by any stretch of the imagination... so clearly abusing asylum rules just for their own opportunistic chance of gain!!!


Either people start seeing sense... or you are basically saying that none of the Indian sub continent or SE Asia are safe... and up to 2 billion people from the areas could then also have reason to start to try to turn up in Australia with claims of needing somewhere safe to live...!!!

eddie wrote:Mental indeed. Cerebral dynasty.

Are you sure you mean dynasty lol

sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:Mental indeed. Cerebral dynasty.

Are you sure you mean dynasty lol

Oh yes.

eddie wrote:

sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:Mental indeed. Cerebral dynasty.

Are you sure you mean dynasty lol

Oh yes.

An epoch-long dynasty as of Sunday!

Tommy Monk wrote:No idea what you two are guffing on about...


But in response to this...


Ben said:

If they are not from Sri Lanka, they're from Afghanistan and have just as much a right to seek asylum as anybody.

There is no law stipulating that people must choose a nearby country in which to seek asylum.




I've been to Sri Lanka... beautiful part of the world... lovely people... 21million of them seem to be living there safely enough... plenty of safe places for everyone there... and plenty more safe places in nearby surrounding areas/countries too...!!!


Afghanistan is even further away from australia... is also full of safe places... also surrounded by many nearby safe places... and any coming from Afghanistan would have to travel past/through sri lanka and all the other safe places on route to Australia too!!!


Overehelming vast majority are economic migrants!!!


They have left safety... travelled through numerous other places of safety... bypassing numerous other nearer places of safety... heading towards a place much much further away... seemingly having plenty of money to pay their way to get there too so hardly destitute by any stretch of the imagination... so clearly abusing asylum rules just for their own opportunistic chance of gain!!!


Either people start seeing sense... or you are basically saying that none of the Indian sub continent or SE Asia are safe... and up to 2 billion people from the areas could then also have reason to start to try to turn up in Australia with claims of needing somewhere safe to live...!!!

Had no idea you visited Sri Lanka in the middle of a civil war ...

You have no idea about a lot of things...

They have all passed through/by plenty of perfectly safe places on route to Australia etc...


Had plenty of food and shelter too along the way ..