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2012-08-15 01:13:53 GMT+7 (ICT)

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (BNO NEWS) -- A boat carrying nearly 70 asylum seekers which left Indonesia for Australia in late June has not been heard from since, Australian home affairs minister Jason Clare said on Tuesday, adding that the government holds "very grave fears" for their safety.

Clare said the Australian government received reports over the last few days that a boat carrying 67 asylum seekers is believed to have left Indonesia en-route to Australia at the end of June or early July. They have not been heard from since, and authorities fear their boat may have sunk.

"We've been given a list by people in Australia of some of the people on the boat. We've checked that against immigration records here in Australia and unfortunately they've not found any evidence that those people have arrived in Australia," Clare said. "We're checking with Indonesian officials as well but, unfortunately, at the moment there's no evidence that those people have arrived in Australia, so sixty-seven people for whom we hold very grave fears at the moment."

The news comes as the Australian government is nearing an agreement to transfer asylum seekers to Nauru and Papua New Guinea, where they could spend years before being resettled. The practice of offshore processing was abandoned by the Labor party in 2007, but the Australian government hopes it will make asylum seekers think twice about coming to Australia.

"The sooner we're able to implement this, the sooner we can stop people risking their lives and coming to Australia by boat," Clare said on Tuesday. "If we can pass legislation through the Parliament this week, we can take action with the support of Australian authorities to set up facilities in Nauru and in Manus as quickly as possible."

So far this year, the Australian Navy has intercepted 6,281 irregular maritime arrivals (IMAs), most of them coming from Afghanistan and Iran who use Indonesia as a transit region. As of March 31, a total of 4,197 people are being held in immigration facilities while 1,712 people have been approved for a residence determination to live in the community.

Australia's Migration Act 1958 currently requires people who are not Australian citizens and who are unlawfully in Australia to be detained. This law has been heavily criticized by the United Nations and human rights organizations as many asylum seekers are in detention for months. In 2010, a total of 4,612 irregular maritime arrivals were intercepted by the Australian Navy.

However, the boat journeys made by asylum seekers are not without risk, as demonstrated by the latest incident. In December 2010, at least 30 people were killed when a boat carrying more than 90 asylum seekers sank off the coast of Christmas Island. Forty-two people were rescued, while an unknown number of people remain missing.

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For those who have not heard the news after an independent report was given to the Government ... there has been a change in the way asylum seekers (specifically the 'boat people') will be processed in the future.

Offshore processing of asylum seekers could begin within months, PM says.

  • Offshore processing to begin within months
  • Army to build temporary camps on Nauru and PNG
  • Opposition to support offshore processing legislation
  • Another 113 asylum seekers rescued off Indonesia

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Offshore processing given the green light

Updated 6 hours 13 minutes ago

Offshore detention facilities for asylum seekers could be up and running within a month, after the Australian government supported an independent enquiry's findings. But the government's resisting calls to turn back boats, a policy that one member of parliament has described as an insult to Indonesia.

For those with a good internet connection a 6 minute ABC video is here.

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People smuggler admits helping asylum seekers

A Melbourne court has been told a man was paid more than $30,000 to help asylum seekers reach Australia.

Ali Haidari, 37, from the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury, has admitted helping seven asylum seekers from Iraq and Iran between December 2009 and April 2010.

The prosecution told the court Haidari received payments of between $8,000 for one man's passage and $10,000 to $15,000 for two families, to be taken by boat from Indonesia to Australia.

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God bless the 'Johnny Howard' solution. Just ashame it took so long for that stupid redhead PM and her cronies to wake up, give the greens the flick and go with what worked in the passed. Loads of these boat people have died for the pride of 'Gillard the Greedy'.

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I think PNG is a fine place to determine whether boat people are true refugees or economic migrants as the indigenous culture might be even more primitive than that of the refugees.

http://www.rawstory....pua-new-guinea/

Sometimes you crack me up. Quality. A couple of days in PNG and they will be begging the authorities to send them back to Mogadishu, Baghdad and Kabul to re- open their fruit shops.

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I think PNG is a fine place to determine whether boat people are true refugees or economic migrants as the indigenous culture might be even more primitive than that of the refugees.

http://www.rawstory....pua-new-guinea/

Sometimes you crack me up. Quality. A couple of days in PNG and they will be begging the authorities to send them back to Mogadishu, Baghdad and Kabul to re- open their fruit shops.

Indeed, furthermore I doubt the asylum seekers would be so quick to burn their hostel down, just in case the locals decide to have a barbeque.

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People-smuggling accused 'victims of smugglers'

ABC TV 5 min clip

Lawyers are travelling into the poorest regions of Indonesia to gather evidence to defend some of the 300 Indonesian adults in custody in Australia on people-smuggling charges.

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I really think that at all levels the people-smuggling business try and take the piss out of the Australians.

Just because they are poor, gives them the 'Indonesian fisherman' or any others the right to break the law and crew a boat whose sole purpose is the trade of 'people-smuggling'.

They are offered 5, 6 sometimes 10 weeks pay for what they are told is a day or two work ... but don't 'raise an eyebrow' ... please!

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Sorry for carrying on ... but this story gets my goat up.

Asylum-seekers 'force' Singapore ship to Australia

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Asylum seekers 'had army escort'

Asylum seekers are being accused of acting like pirates after forcing a Singapore bound ship to take them to Australia. The owner of the vessel claimed that the asylum-seekers were threatening self-harm and did not act aggressively towards the crew.

A boatload of asylum-seekers picked up by a Singaporean merchant vessel after a distress call were Thursday accused of acting like pirates after forcing the captain to take them to Australia.

The Singapore-flagged MV Parsifal picked up the 67 asylum-seekers from a people-smuggling ship off the Indonesian island of Java (my bolding) on Monday in response to a distress call relayed by Australian authorities.



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Sorry for carrying on ... but this story gets my goat up.

Asylum-seekers 'force' Singapore ship to Australia

post-104736-0-80118800-1345157155_thumb.

Asylum seekers 'had army escort'

Asylum seekers are being accused of acting like pirates after forcing a Singapore bound ship to take them to Australia. The owner of the vessel claimed that the asylum-seekers were threatening self-harm and did not act aggressively towards the crew.

A boatload of asylum-seekers picked up by a Singaporean merchant vessel after a distress call were Thursday accused of acting like pirates after forcing the captain to take them to Australia.

The Singapore-flagged MV Parsifal picked up the 67 asylum-seekers from a people-smuggling ship off the Indonesian island of Java (my bolding) on Monday in response to a distress call relayed by Australian authorities.



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The new Politically Correct Wizz Name for these criminals is now "Irregular Maritime Arrivals", Asylum seekers is no longer trendy.

These IMA'S should be charged with Piracy. What they did is a criminal offence that carries 15 yrs imprisonment. No misdemeanour. Thier application should automatically be red stamped never to be approved and deported ASAP. Australian doesn't need absolute scum like this. I bet our soft government will allow them to stay and award them with everything they demand. They will set a precidence.

They are as cunning as sewer rats. Thier last ploy was to sail a few kms off Indoneasian soil send out a distress call, the Australian Navy came at high speed and gave them the express taxi service to Australia. Now Australia has offshore processing the new tactic will be to send out a distress call when in the vicinity of private shipping. They will get rescued, hijack the ship and demand to be taken to xmas Island. Once on Australian territory they can't be moved to offshore processing.

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 51

Interpretation

In this Part:

"act of piracy" means an act of violence, detention or depredation committed for private ends by the crew or passengers of a <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca191482/s51.html#private_ship_or_aircraft">private ship or aircraft and directed:

(a) if the act is done on the high seas or in the coastal sea of Australia--against another ship or aircraft or against persons or property on board another ship or aircraft; or

(B) if the act is done in a place beyond the jurisdiction of any country--against a ship, aircraft, persons or property.

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