The researches came the other day as the Greens and the Coalition joined forces and consented to a Senate inquiry in the Malaysia program, while federal government legal representatives argued for the plan in a directions hearing in the High Court. Next Monday the full bench of the court will hear a challenge by the Melbourne refugee lawyer David Manne, who opposes the plan on humanitarian grounds.
A different survey has said that nearly all Aussies support the perception of asylum seekers being processed in Australia. The newest Herald/Nielsen poll of 1400 persons was taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening, following High Court enforced an injunction on the Malaysia program. The poll discovers 53 % of voters preferred that asylum seekers arriving by vessel be permitted to land in Australia to be examined. Only 28 % were feeling they should be sent to another region for examination, the method of Labor and the Coalition, while 15 per cent mentioned the arrivals need to be ''sent back out to sea''.
Of people who considered asylum seekers should be processed in Australia, 55 per cent believed they should be kept in detention when being processed, and 41 % thought they must be allowed to reside in the community. 1 / 2 of people that opted for assessment in Australia or a third country thought those discovered to be refugees should be permitted to settle in Australia for good.
The Greens are the only party that advocates processing asylum seekers in Australia. The government's policy centers on Malaysia and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, even though the Coalition would send out the asylum seekers to Nauru. A Labor MP from Victoria, Anna Burke, talked out yesterday in opposition to her party's Malaysia plan. ''I'm particularly concerned that we can't really ensure the protection of the individuals, the 800 who will be sent there,'' she told the ABC. ''And I can't feel that Manus Island will help the task,'' she said, likening it to Nauru as well as Howard government's so-called Pacific solution.
Within an affidavit filed in the High Court a day ago, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said discussions with Malaysian representatives directed him to decide the nation had produced a ''significant conceptual shift'' about its treatment of asylum seekers. ''The understanding that I formed from my conversations with the Minister of Home Affairs as well as other Malaysian representatives was that the Malaysian administration was eager to further improve its management of refugees and asylum seekers,'' he was quoted saying.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told the caucus this morning that she was ''convinced our legal case is effective''. Plans by the Greens' spokeswoman on immigration, Sarah Hanson-Young, to relate the Malaysia plan and the Manus Island task to a Senate inquiry, hit a snag when the Coalition decided only to assessing Malaysia.
The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said Manus Island was just a proposal without details. The Greens acknowledged the issue and in return for the required amounts to establish an inquiry, dropped the Manus Island factor. Mr Morrison said the committee would request facts from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. It will also investigate the Coalition's Nauru policy and the Greens' recommended solution of mainland Australia.
Immigration Lawyer in Sydney Mr. Christopher Levingston said, both parties needs to understand that is not a matter of protecting our borders but a matter of Australia's obligation under international laws to assess every refugee claims that we receive onshore.
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