What are you going to do now Mr Morrison??

[i-need-a-martini]

The High Court has issued an interim injunction preventing the transfer to Sri Lanka of 153 asylum seekers who are missing on a boat bound for Australia.

The injunction, granted late on Monday in Sydney, applies at least until a hearing resumes on Tuesday afternoon at 2.15pm.

The asylum seekers are represented by Ron Merkel, QC, who argued to Justice Susan Crennan that the transfer was illegal because the asylum seekers had been deprived the ability to have their claims properly assessed.

But it is not clear whether the transfer has already taken place because Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has refused to comment and his lawyers told the court they had not received instructions.

Sources said lawyers were representing the asylum seekers through their families and they have not been in touch with them since contact was lost more than a week ago.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/high-court-grants-injunction-over-asylum-seeke...

All you have to do to stop this kind of thing is to communicate. It can't be that hard surely?

[monman12]

"doesn't seem to know much...."

And it looks like  that  Julian Burnside (and he is not alone)  is  wrong with his qualified ‘looks for all the world like piracy’!

Perhaps he is cycloptic also!

"wonder what the sentence is for piracy?" Well as there is none involved, perhaps no C&P's for a week.