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Factbox: seeking asylum in Australia
14 Oct 2009, 2:53PM
Australia is one of the 146 signatories to the UN Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees.
Timeline: Asylum seekers
14 Oct 2009, 11:00AM
Australia's immigration policy is coming under fire with an increasing number or boats arriving in Australian waters carrying suspected asylum seekers.
Asylum boat explosion probe begins
25 Jan 2010, 8:42AM
Border security procedures will not be made public during a coronial inquest into an asylum seeker boat explosion that killed five Afghanis in April.
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- Vigils for asylum seekers stuck on boat
Plan to remove Tamils by force 'false'
14 Jan 2010, 4:02PM
Indonesia has denied it is planning to force ashore 240 Sri Lankan
asylum seekers who have spent the past three months holed up on their
boat in a Javan port.
- Opposition says security risked over Tamils
- Turn asylum seeker boats back: Abbott
- Australia won''t ''shirk'' asylum responsibility
Rudd under fire over detention centre
11 Dec 2009, 3:32PM
The federal opposition is again calling for the government to re-think
its border protection policy with overcrowding at Christmas Island
forcing asylum seekers to be housed in tents.
- Asylum seekers being forced into tents
- Asylum boat reaches Christmas Island
- Another asylum seeker boat intercepted
Asylum seekers intercepted off Darwin
04 Dec 2009, 10:30AM
A boat believed to be carrying 15 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted 150 nautical miles north west of Darwin.
Rudd talks on refugees at CHOGM
30 Nov 2009, 3:52PM
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has raised the issue of refugees and people smuggling with his Sri Lankan counterpart.
- Queen, CHOGM to come to Perth in 2011
- Perth to host 2011 CHOGM
- Another asylum seeker boat intercepted
Australia-bound boats stopped
24 Nov 2009, 4:17PM
Sri Lanka's navy reports seizing two fishing trawlers carrying 60 people heading for Australia, and says passengers had paid people-smugglers large amounts of money.
Another asylum seeker boat intercepted
24 Nov 2009, 9:30AM
An Australian naval vessel has intercepted a boat carrying 56 suspected
asylum seekers and two crew off Australia's northwest coast.
- Opposition adamant over boat deal
- Navy intercepts boat carrying 41 people
- Indonesia threatens deportation
Security tightened after Christmas Island riot
23 Nov 2009, 6:34PM
Security is being stepped up at the Christmas Island detention centre, after a riot by 150 asylum seekers wielding pool cues and broomsticks left 37 wounded.
- Your say: Are you happy with the treatment of asylum seekers?
- Inquiry launched into detainee riot
- Asylum seekers in Christmas Island riot
'Unnecessary panic' over asylum seekers
19 Nov 2009, 7:05AM
Australia has a panicked mentality about asylum seekers which is out of proportion with the problem, the head of charity Amnesty International says.
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- Asylum seekers disembark
- Indonesians board Oceanic Viking
Sri Lankans disembark
18 Nov 2009, 7:10PM
About 40 of the final 56 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have spent the past month on the Oceanic Viking have left the ship.
