The Human rights group, Amnesty International, has renewed its call for the federal government to drop its temporary protection visa system.
Yesterday, 42 people from the troubled Indonesian province of Papua were granted temporary protection by Austarlia, after they arrived in northeast Australia by boat in January.
An Amnesty spokesman, Graham Thom, says temporary protection visas are unfair and breach Australia's international obligations.
"The visas should not be there to penalise people who have come directly from their country of abuse to where they have sought asylum.
"The government has always maintained the visas are there to stop people from making secondary movements - from leaving places where they were safe."