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The Salvation Army, which is running care services for asylum seekers on Nauru Island, says facilities should be improved before women and children are transferred there. Salvation Army spokesman Paul Moulds says women and children should not be sent yet, because asylum seekers are sleeping in tents while the compound is under construction. “We certainly Read more
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Manus Island is one of the poorest and most remote areas of Papua New Guinea. Ambrose Kiapseni is the region’s Catholic Bishop and his diocese includes Manus. He criticised the establishment of the first asylum seeker centre there and he told Alison Carabine that he hasn’t changed his mind. Listen to interview on Radio Australia
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General secretary of PNG and Solomon Islands Catholic Bishops Conference, Father Victor Roche, told Radio Australia that when one of their bishops last year described his unhappiness at the conditions he saw in an offshore detention centre, the bishops formed a collective viewpoint on the issue. “We are against the offshore detention centres in Papua Read more
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Papua New Guinea would favourably consider reopening an asylum seekers’ processing centre if asked by Australia according to Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. And in Nauru, the office of Dominic Tabuna, the Minister for Commerce, Industry and Environment, issued a statement saying that while Nauru stands ready to assist the Australian government, Nauru had “no say” Read more
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Australia’s Labour government may have to resort to sending asylum seekers to Nauru without their preferred option of transferring them to Malaysia after appeals by the government for the opposition to meet it halfway on policy fell on deaf ears. Despite three cabinet ministers urging yesterday the opposition to allow Labour’s Malaysia plan in return Read more
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The Australian Government has indicated that Nauru is unlikely to be use for Asylum Seekers. The Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has released financial estimates that reveal it would cost just under a billion dollars to process asylum seekers on Nauru over the next four years. He’s labelled it an expensive and ineffective option Australia’s Government Read more
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Papua New Guinea officials say they will know within two weeks whether they will reopen the Manus Island asylum seeker processing centre. However, Australia’s Uniting Church has criticised discussions between the country’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and his Papua New Guinea counterpart, Ano Pala, over the possible processing of asylum seekers on Manus Island. Mr Rudd Read more
