Australia Fails to Strike Asylum Seeker Deal
January 24, 2012
A group of asylum seekers who failed to escape from their detention center in Pasuruan, East Java on Jan. 19, 2012. Negotiations have broken down between the Australian government and the main opposition party on a compromise policy to deport asylum seekers to another country. (AFP Photo) Related articles
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Canberra. Negotiations have broken down between the government and Australia’s main opposition party on a compromise policy to deport asylum seekers to another country.
Both the governing Labor Party and the opposition Liberal Party agree that sending asylum seekers to another country within the Asia-Pacific region would be the best way to curb the increasing number heading from Indonesia and Malaysia by boat.
But the two parties revealed on Tuesday that their politically charged negotiations had broken down.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard accuses opposition leader Tony Abbott of failing to negotiate in good faith.
Associated Press
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