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1.The Malaysian Solution DOA, ‘unlawful’ says High Court.
The High Court of Australia has just scuttled the Federal Government’s Malaysia Solution which was to begin deporting asylum seekers who arrived by boat to Malaysia in exchange for 1000 ‘genuine’ Malaysian refugees each year for the next four years. The case was brought to the High Court by human rights lawyer David Manne who argued the Federal Government did not have the right to act unilaterally in deciding on the human rights conditions in another country.
The High Court said the Migration Act requires that the country meet certain human rights standards in providing protection and that the Immigration Minister was first and foremost the guardian of asylum seeker children who had arrived in Australia. The court held invalid that Malaysia was a country to which asylum seekers could be taken for processing.
The full bench were 5-2 split in the decision.
2. Six Aussie women on US terror ‘watch’ list: Wikileaks
Wikileaks has revealed that six women living in Australia are among 23 Aussies on a secret ‘terror’ list drawn up by US intelligence agencies. The women (four Australians, one British, one Filipina – all living in Australia) are suspected of being part of plan to recruit more women to al-Qaeda to perform terrorist attacks.
3. Former PM blasts Gillard but says she’ll last another two years.
Former Prime Minister, John Howard, last night re-entered the political debate appearing on the 7.30 Report claiming that PM Julia Gillard ‘lacked authority’ and was ‘unpopular’. Howard predicted the Gillard Government would likely last another two years because the independents would fail to withdraw their support.. Australia’s second-longest serving PM also predicted that independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott would lose their seats at the next election.
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