on 15-01-2014 10:32 PM
Indonesian authorities have quoted the asylum seekers on board saying Australian navy personnel fired shots as part of the operation to turn around the boat carrying 25 people.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-turns-back-asylum-seeker-boat-from-i...
Solved! Go to Solution.
on 16-01-2014 08:50 PM
on 16-01-2014 08:55 PM
Shouldn't we be doing the same, and just be getting on with solving a big future problem?
on 16-01-2014 09:08 PM
@donnashuggy wrote:I really like AlJazeera, did you read this one?
I like it too and yes, I did. No story about Australian Navy shooting at asylum seekers though.....They usually have comprehensive reports, like the one I posted earlier about EU and drones monitoring asylum seeker boats.
on 20-01-2014 01:09 PM
and now this ?
Nauru expels Australian magistrate Peter Law, bars chief justice Geoffrey Eames from returning to country
Updated 1 hour 20 minutes ago
Nauru's justice system has been thrown into chaos after its chief justice and only magistrate - both Australian citizens - were barred from the country.
The country's solicitor-general, Steven Bliim, has now tended his resignation and the ABC believes a Melbourne-based solicitor has this morning arrived in the Pacific nation to preside as magistrate.
On Sunday morning, Nauru's president Baron Waqa fired resident magistrate and supreme court registrar Peter Law.
"I was found by the police... [they] came to my place and arrested me because they demanded I be on the first plane out of Nauru," he told ABC's AM program.
Mr Law says he was forced out of the country.
on 20-01-2014 01:29 PM
@izabsmiling wrote:and now this ?
Nauru expels Australian magistrate Peter Law, bars chief justice Geoffrey Eames from returning to country
By Melissa Clarke, staffUpdated 1 hour 20 minutes ago
Nauru's justice system has been thrown into chaos after its chief justice and only magistrate - both Australian citizens - were barred from the country.
The country's solicitor-general, Steven Bliim, has now tended his resignation and the ABC believes a Melbourne-based solicitor has this morning arrived in the Pacific nation to preside as magistrate.
On Sunday morning, Nauru's president Baron Waqa fired resident magistrate and supreme court registrar Peter Law.
"I was found by the police... [they] came to my place and arrested me because they demanded I be on the first plane out of Nauru," he told ABC's AM program.
Mr Law says he was forced out of the country.
So I take it you still havent listened to Scott Morrisons interview here http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Boats-and-More-Immigration-Minister-Scott-Morrison/...
on 20-01-2014 01:39 PM
hear no evil,see no evil, speak no evil ????
Nauru courts crisis a case of 'internal politics': Scott Morrison
The chief justice, who has been in the job for three years, is believed to have expressed serious concerns to the Nauru government about the conditions asylum seekers are held in on the island.
Mr Law has recently issued two injunctions restraining the government from deporting two residents without giving them any reason or right to challenge the decision.
The magistrate told ABC Radio on Monday that he had been given no official reason for his deportation.
"I was found by the police, contacted and came to my place and arrested me because they demanded that I be on the first plane out of Nauru," he said.
Mr Law described the action by the Nauru government as a "complete debacle".
"Just this week we've had 60 or 70 criminal matters listed, including about 30 or 40 of the asylum seeker defendants. Where all this is going to go I don't know. I'm in the middle of judgments, sentences, so it's just a complete debacle as far as I can see."
Mr Morrison noted that because Mr Law and Justice Eames were officers under the Nauru court system,
recent events were a matter for the Nauru government.