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| Subject: The OZschwitz rights violating, PNG solution's destructive impact, on asylum seeker numbers Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:14 pm | |
| The bulk of the dramatic fall in asylum seeker boat arrivals happened under Labor's last-ditch Papua New Guinea deal announced before the election campaign, a Fairfax Media analysis shows.
An analysis of week-on-week boat arrivals in the period from July 19, when Kevin Rudd announced the PNG solution, shows that the rate of arrivals has fallen steadily but the drop was most pronounced before the Abbott government was sworn in. Labor and the Coalition slugged it out over the issue on Friday, each putting forward statistics that purported to show that their policies were behind the drop.
At his weekly briefing, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said there had been a 79.3 per cent drop in the eight weeks since he introduced the military-led Operation Sovereign Borders on September 18, compared with the eight previous weeks.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/figures-show-png-solutions-impact-on-asylum-seeker-numbers-20131115-2xmjp.html#ixzz2kl7WrRk5 |
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