Over fifty percent the citizenry is convinced asylum seekers coming by boat have to be landed and processed in Australia, contradicting the policies of these two main parties, which unfortunately advocate processing in a third region, a poll finds.
The researches came yesterday as the Greens and the Coalition joined forces and agreed to a Senate inquiry to the Malaysia program, while government lawyers argued for the plan in a directions hearing in the High Court. Next Monday the full bench of the court will hear a challenge by the Melbourne refugee lawyer David Manne, who opposes the plan on humanitarian reasons.
The latest poll has revealed that a large number of Aussies support the idea of asylum seekers being processed in Australia. The most up-to-date Herald/Nielsen study of 1400 people was taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening hours, following High Court imposed an injunction on the Malaysia plan. The study finds out 53 percent of voters favored that asylum seekers arriving by vessel be allowed to land in Australia to be examined. Only 28 per-cent were feeling they must be delivered to a different country for assessment, the strategy of Labor and the Coalition, while 15 % said the arrivals need to be ''sent out to sea''.
Of those who thought asylum seekers ought to be processed in Australia, 55 % thought they must be kept in detention when being processed, and 41 per cent considered they should be allowed to live in the community. 50 % of those people that preferred review in Australia or a third country thought those found to be refugees really should be able to settle in Australia for good.
The Greens are the only party that advocates processing asylum seekers in Australia. The government's policy centers on Malaysia and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, even though the Coalition would send out the asylum seekers to Nauru. A Labor MP from Victoria, Anna Burke, talked out yesterday in opposition to her party's Malaysia plan. ''I'm particularly concerned that we can't really ensure the protection of the individuals, the 800 who will be sent there,'' she told the ABC. ''And I can't feel that Manus Island will help the task,'' she said, likening it to Nauru as well as Howard government's so-called Pacific solution.
Within an affidavit filed in the High Court not too long ago, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said talks with Malaysian officers encouraged him to conclude the nation had created ''vital conceptual shift'' about its treatments for asylum seekers. ''The understanding that I formed from my talks with the Minister of Home Affairs and also other Malaysian officers was that the Malaysian authorities was eager to further improve its treatments for refugees and asylum seekers,'' he was quoted saying.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told the caucus yesterday that she was ''confident our legal case is solid''. Plans by the Greens' spokeswoman on immigration, Sarah Hanson-Young, to refer the Malaysia plan and the Manus Island recommendation to a Senate inquiry, hit a snag when the Coalition decided just to reviewing Malaysia.
The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said Manus Island was just a proposal without details. The Greens acknowledged the issue and in return for the required amounts to establish an inquiry, dropped the Manus Island factor. Mr Morrison said the committee would request facts from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. It will also investigate the Coalition's Nauru policy and the Greens' recommended solution of mainland Australia.
Immigration Lawyer in Sydney Mr. Christopher Levingston said, both parties needs to understand that is not a matter of protecting our borders but a matter of Australia's obligation under international laws to assess every refugee claims that we receive onshore.
The researches came yesterday as the Greens and the Coalition joined forces and agreed to a Senate inquiry to the Malaysia program, while government lawyers argued for the plan in a directions hearing in the High Court. Next Monday the full bench of the court will hear a challenge by the Melbourne refugee lawyer David Manne, who opposes the plan on humanitarian reasons.
The latest poll has revealed that a large number of Aussies support the idea of asylum seekers being processed in Australia. The most up-to-date Herald/Nielsen study of 1400 people was taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening hours, following High Court imposed an injunction on the Malaysia plan. The study finds out 53 percent of voters favored that asylum seekers arriving by vessel be allowed to land in Australia to be examined. Only 28 per-cent were feeling they must be delivered to a different country for assessment, the strategy of Labor and the Coalition, while 15 % said the arrivals need to be ''sent out to sea''.
Of those who thought asylum seekers ought to be processed in Australia, 55 % thought they must be kept in detention when being processed, and 41 per cent considered they should be allowed to live in the community. 50 % of those people that preferred review in Australia or a third country thought those found to be refugees really should be able to settle in Australia for good.
The Greens are the only party that advocates processing asylum seekers in Australia. The government's policy centers on Malaysia and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, even though the Coalition would send out the asylum seekers to Nauru. A Labor MP from Victoria, Anna Burke, talked out yesterday in opposition to her party's Malaysia plan. ''I'm particularly concerned that we can't really ensure the protection of the individuals, the 800 who will be sent there,'' she told the ABC. ''And I can't feel that Manus Island will help the task,'' she said, likening it to Nauru as well as Howard government's so-called Pacific solution.
Within an affidavit filed in the High Court not too long ago, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said talks with Malaysian officers encouraged him to conclude the nation had created ''vital conceptual shift'' about its treatments for asylum seekers. ''The understanding that I formed from my talks with the Minister of Home Affairs and also other Malaysian officers was that the Malaysian authorities was eager to further improve its treatments for refugees and asylum seekers,'' he was quoted saying.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told the caucus yesterday that she was ''confident our legal case is solid''. Plans by the Greens' spokeswoman on immigration, Sarah Hanson-Young, to refer the Malaysia plan and the Manus Island recommendation to a Senate inquiry, hit a snag when the Coalition decided just to reviewing Malaysia.
The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said Manus Island was just a proposal without details. The Greens acknowledged the issue and in return for the required amounts to establish an inquiry, dropped the Manus Island factor. Mr Morrison said the committee would request facts from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. It will also investigate the Coalition's Nauru policy and the Greens' recommended solution of mainland Australia.
Immigration Lawyer in Sydney Mr. Christopher Levingston said, both parties needs to understand that is not a matter of protecting our borders but a matter of Australia's obligation under international laws to assess every refugee claims that we receive onshore.
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