Australian Labor Government Prepares to Forcibly Deport Refugees
Submitted on August 4, 2011
By Will Morrow - WSWS
The Australian government orchestrated a show of force by riot police this week to broadcast a worldwide message of the methods that will be employed to carry out its new policy of deporting refugees to Malaysia...Images of training drills on Christmas Island by the Australian Federal Police...were given front-page coverage in Murdoch media outlets on Monday. Prime Minister Julia Gillard issued a blunt warning to asylum seekers: “We will do what is necessary to ensure people who are taken to Malaysia under the agreement are taken.”
