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Concerns over rapid asylum seeker transfers

Construction underway at the Nauru  detention centre
Construction underway at the Nauru detention centre

If asylum seekers are fit enough to get on a boat, they should be fit enough to fly.That's a basic operating principle of an Abbott government plan to transfer asylum seekers to an Australian overseas processing centre within 48 hours of being stopped at sea.


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By Praba Maheswaran

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If asylum seekers are fit enough to get on a boat, they should be fit enough to fly.That's a basic operating principle of an Abbott government plan to transfer asylum seekers to an Australian overseas processing centre within 48 hours of being stopped at sea.


The new government says most health and other checks of asylum seekers arriving by boat will be done in the overseas centres.

 

 


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