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?

[the_great_she_elephant]

Oops! 

[fiestas*girl]

ridiculously inept government!!!

a disgustng blight on our nations former great reputation

[mainecoon1]

I agree it is an embarrassment and a shame that the world are now looking on us as being inhuman and racist

[monman12]

"What are you going to do now Mr Morrison??"

If the transfer has not taken place,  perhaps  transfering the passengers back to their original country of embarkation, India, could be an option.  I do wonder why the "India" connection has not been aired to any degree, especially if this is an example :

"Ms Kumari said she feared for her and her husband’s safety if he were sent back to Sri Lanka, a country both families fled as war refugees 24 years ago, because of a 300,000 rupee debt her husband owed Indian money lenders and the fact there was no longer any family to rely on in Sri Lanka.

"He called her on June 19 to say he was en route to another country to seek asylum; she thought he was heading for New Zealand. It was the last she heard from him."

“My husband knew about the Australian policy (of turning back asylum-seekers) and would not have taken the risk of going to Australia,” she said."

"Her tearful sister-in-law Indrani Yesumani said she too believed her husband had been aiming for New Zealand in the hope of raising money to continue her two children’s education."

Maybe some economic refugees rather  than ones escaping persecution!

June 2014 Lowy Institute Poll

"In a strong endorsement of the Government’s “Sovereign Borders” policy, 71% of Australians agree that the government should turn back boats when safe to do so."

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[the_great_she_elephant]

"In a strong endorsement of the Government’s “Sovereign Borders” policy, 71% of Australians agree that the government should turn back boats when safe to do so."

SYDNEY/COLOMBO, July 7 (Reuters) - Forty-one Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned by Australia are to be charged with leaving the country illegally and those found guilty face "rigorous imprisonment", police said on Monday, fuelling concerns about Australian policy and rights abuses in Sri Lanka.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/07/sri-lanka-australia-idINL4N0PH0LR20140707

[monman12]

Of the 41  persons in the first boat,  37 are Sinhalese and four Tamils. Considering that the Sinhalese are the majority (rulers)  within Sri Lanka, I do wonder why they set off in the first place as they were the ones who ended up "victorious" when the civil war with the Tamils  ended in 2009.

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[j*oono]

You can wonder all you like Monman because they were not given a chance to explain.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

Morrisons housekeeping skills unmasked

[i-need-a-martini]

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@monman12 wrote:

Of the 41  persons in the first boat,  37 are Sinhalese and four Tamils. Considering that the Sinhalese are the majority (rulers)  within Sri Lanka, I do wonder why they set off in the first place as they were the ones who ended up "victorious" when the civil war with the Tamils  ended in 2009.

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We only have Morrisons word that they were Sinhalese.. And his word counts for nothing and can't be trusted with the truth.

Personally I don't believe him and I suspect that they were Tamils. Hence the Sri Lankans speed in imprisoning them.