Weekly refugee posting 3: other stuff

[dreamer_easy]

Australia has asked Cambodia to take some of our boat people. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia, so should be easy to bribe with additional aid, but as it also has one of the worst human rights records on the continent, who knows, we might end seeing some of the the same refugees boomeranging back to us.

Australia's repeated incursions into Indonesian waters while turning back boats has been blamed on sailors' mistakes in navigation. Indonesia has accepted this diplomatic porkie, but continues to ask that the turn-back policy be scrapped. ETA: A technical explanation from a retired admiral makes the "oops!" explanation seem more credible.

The names and addresses of 10,000 asylum seekers were inadvertently published on the Department of Immigration Web site, putting lives at risk, as well as revealing other details potentially useful to people smugglers. (Perhaps, to get the information being withheld about Manus Island, we should just poke around in the site for a bit.) ETA: The details were available for eight and a half days. Asylum seekers may not be told their information was published.

Comments

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

It also may have the benefit of aiding their refugee status, as they can say if their home country knows their id, they'll be punished or persecuted for fleeing.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

Plus, apparently, the Minister accidentally told people where to look on the site to find the details. The Keystone Cops do border security! *headdesk*