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Australian "Labor" Government Repudiates International Law on Refugees

Submitted on September 20, 2011

By Patrick O’Connor - 19 September 2011

The Labor government’s proposed amendments to the Migration Act and Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act represent an unprecedented repudiation of all international and domestic legal norms governing the treatment of refugees...The legislation’s immediate purpose is to circumvent a High Court ruling issued on August 31 that struck down the government’s plan to deport hundreds of asylum seekers to Malaysia.

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