Resettling refugees in other countries is not reliable, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?
- Written by Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
The federal government has scrambled in recent days to minimise the political fallout from its treatment of the Tamil family from Biloela. After almost two years stuck on Christmas Island, the Murugappans are now being permitted to return to the mainland under community detention while their asylum case is settled.
Last week, Foreign Affairs...
