Labor turns again 200 asylum seekers in 18 months

IN DEEP TROUBLE

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The Labor authorities has both turned again asylum seeker boats or returned asylum seekers who got here right here on them seven occasions since Could 2022, Guardian Australia experiences, affecting practically 200 folks, together with 14 youngsters. There have been twice as many boat makes an attempt than throughout the closing years of the Coalition, the paper notes, which turned again two to a few vessels a 12 months between 2016 and 2020. A lot for Scott Morrison’s on-the-nose “I ended these” boat trophy. So how does it work? Both we intercept the boats and pressure them again to their origin nation’s sea border, or else we ship asylum seekers again by aircraft or sea. As an example, 15 folks had been reportedly flown again to Sri Lanka proper after the election, as Sky Information Australia reported.

In the meantime, WA’s Corrective Providers Minister Paul Papalia lied in regards to the night time Indigenous boy Cleveland Dodd was discovered hanging in his cell in Unit 18 of grownup Casuarina Jail, in keeping with his mom, Nadene Dodd. Papalia stated it took “minutes” for guards to answer the teenager saying he was going to take his personal life, and praised the guards. It really took 16 minutes, the ABC says. Sixteen minutes! Throughout that point Cleveland referred to as once more to say he was going to hold himself. Papalia reckons “minutes” was per the data he had — however he spoke to Nadene every week later and reiterated it was minutes. He “sat and he checked out us and he informed a giant mislead our face”, Nadene stated, including: “Unit 18 is a disgusting, darkish, chilly place that no child needs to be in.” Papalia ought to resign, WA Opposition Chief Shane Love stated.