Published 2014
“…As part of its efforts to deter the arrival of asylum-seekers by boat to Australia in2001, Prime Minister John Howard’s Coalition Government established the offshore processing of refugee claims. Known as the
Pacific Solution, this policy included an agreement with Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for asylum-seekers arriving to Australia by boat to be transported to either of these islands where they would wait in camps while their refugee claims were processed. …”
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