Australians favour boat people: Poll says
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 plan, while government legal professionals contended 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 project on humanitarian reasons.
A different survey has said that nearly all Aussies support the perception of asylum seekers being processed in Australia. The newest Herald/Nielsen poll of 1400 persons was taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening, following High Court enforced an injunction on the Malaysia program. The poll discovers 53 % of voters preferred that asylum seekers arriving by vessel be permitted to land in Australia to be examined. Only 28 % were feeling they should be sent to another region for examination, the method of Labor and the Coalition, while 15 per cent mentioned the arrivals need to be ''sent back 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 prefered 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 supports processing asylum seekers in Australia. The government's policy centres on Malaysia and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, although Coalition would send the asylum seekers to Nauru. A Labor MP from Victoria, Anna Burke, talked out recently in opposition to her party's Malaysia approach. ''I'm particularly troubled that we can't actually ensure the protection of the people, the 800 who will be sent there,'' she shared with the ABC. ''And I really don'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.
In the affidavit recorded in the High Court recently, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said talks with Malaysian officers encouraged him to conclude the nation had produced a ''substantive conceptual shift'' about its management of asylum seekers. ''The understanding that I formed from my talks with the Minister of Home Affairs and also other Malaysian representatives was that the Malaysian administration was keen to further improve its treatment of refugees and asylum seekers,'' he was quoted saying.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told the caucus this morning that she was ''convinced our legal case is effective''. Plans by the Greens' spokeswoman on immigration, Sarah Hanson-Young, to relate the Malaysia plan and the Manus Island task to a Senate inquiry, hit a snag when the Coalition decided only to assessing Malaysia.
The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said Manus Island was only a offer with out details. The Greens recognized the discussion and in return for the required figures to establish an inquiry, dropped the Manus Island portion. Mr Morrison said the committee would ask studies from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration. It will also evaluate the Coalition's Nauru policy and the Greens' preferred alternative of mainland Australia.
The researches came yesterday as the Greens and the Coalition joined forces and agreed to a Senate inquiry to the Malaysia plan, while government legal professionals contended 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 project on humanitarian reasons.
A different survey has said that nearly all Aussies support the perception of asylum seekers being processed in Australia. The newest Herald/Nielsen poll of 1400 persons was taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening, following High Court enforced an injunction on the Malaysia program. The poll discovers 53 % of voters preferred that asylum seekers arriving by vessel be permitted to land in Australia to be examined. Only 28 % were feeling they should be sent to another region for examination, the method of Labor and the Coalition, while 15 per cent mentioned the arrivals need to be ''sent back 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 prefered 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 supports processing asylum seekers in Australia. The government's policy centres on Malaysia and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, although Coalition would send the asylum seekers to Nauru. A Labor MP from Victoria, Anna Burke, talked out recently in opposition to her party's Malaysia approach. ''I'm particularly troubled that we can't actually ensure the protection of the people, the 800 who will be sent there,'' she shared with the ABC. ''And I really don'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.
In the affidavit recorded in the High Court recently, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said talks with Malaysian officers encouraged him to conclude the nation had produced a ''substantive conceptual shift'' about its management of asylum seekers. ''The understanding that I formed from my talks with the Minister of Home Affairs and also other Malaysian representatives was that the Malaysian administration was keen to further improve its treatment of refugees and asylum seekers,'' he was quoted saying.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told the caucus this morning that she was ''convinced our legal case is effective''. Plans by the Greens' spokeswoman on immigration, Sarah Hanson-Young, to relate the Malaysia plan and the Manus Island task to a Senate inquiry, hit a snag when the Coalition decided only to assessing Malaysia.
The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said Manus Island was only a offer with out details. The Greens recognized the discussion and in return for the required figures to establish an inquiry, dropped the Manus Island portion. Mr Morrison said the committee would ask studies from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration. It will also evaluate the Coalition's Nauru policy and the Greens' preferred alternative of mainland Australia.
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