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Australia Excuses Itself from Refugee Law

Categories: Oceania, Australia, Human Rights, Migration & Immigration, Refugees

On 17 May 2013 Australian blogger and self-styled ‘global nomad’ More Atlitude [1] posted a lengthy and detailed post [2] in response to “Australia’s decision yesterday to excise its mainland [3] from the migration zone” this week. He argues [2] that it

essentially reinforces a horrible, horrible policy of enforced detention for legal (I stress, again and again and again, people, LEGAL, good grief do I need to paint it neon and string it with lights?) asylum-seekers.