On 19 October 2009, Channel 9 News aired a national news report on asylum seekers. The report quoted numerous statistics which have since come under the scrutiny of Media Watch who allege that some of the reported details were misleading and inaccurate.
9 News stand by their report.
In the interest of fairness and balance, here [...]
For more than five months a group of nearly 240 Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been stranded in an Indonesian port.
The stand-off began when their boat was intercepted by the Indonesian navy following a tip-off from Australia.
The boat people, who are virtually cut off from outsiders, say they want to be resettled in Australia or [...]
Fleeing conflict and war, asylum seekers are risking everything they have for new lives in Australia. On this edition of 101 East we are in Australia to look at one of the toughest immigration policies in the world.
Duration : 0:22:58
February 2010
If they stay they face intimidation and violence. If they go they run the gauntlet of naval controls and treacherous seas. Yet the Tamils of Sri Lanka are taking the high water over the at home.
If there is an opportunity to leave Sri Lanka I will not hesitate, even if it poses a [...]
181 new asylum seekers arrive on Christmas Island
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A group of 11 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were picked up by Indonesian police near Indonesia’s Bintan island this week.
The group of seven men, two women and two children were said to be abandoned by a Malaysian agent after being told they would be taken to Australia.
For many ethnic Tamils from Sri Lanka, fleeing conflict [...]
A group of 56 Sri Lankan asylum seekers are on land today after spending the last month on an Australian customs vessel.
The Sri Lankans were picked up at sea by the Oceanic Viking a month ago after they sent a distress call in Indonesia’s search and rescue zone.
Officials said they will be taken to [...]
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Foreign minister Stephen Smith was with Kevin Rudd for their meeting with the Indonesian president, discussing the best way to deal with asylum seekers. He arrived back in Canberra in the early hours of this morning.
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Perth’s Tamil community has been affected by the plight of Sri Lankan asylum seekers heading to Australia for refuge…..
The Australian government seems to have dangerously sided with Sri Lankan fake Buddhist Sinhala “loyalist” immigrants against Tamil immigrants in Australia + has moved to ban any Tamil resistance in Sri Lanka as being just terrorist organizations [...]
Sri Lankan asylum seekers have finally left an Australian ship for a detention centre in Indonesia.
After a month-long standoff, they agreed to leave the ship following Australian promises of quick resettlement to those with genuine refugee claims.
But as Aela Callan reports from Tanjung Pinang in Indonesia, the crisis is far from over.
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