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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 5.05 GMT |
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Australia needs
world's toughest asylum policies -
Aus Immigration Minister |
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Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said the country needed to maintain one of the toughest asylum policies in the world.
The government is in talks with East Timor and Indonesia about a plan to build a regional processing centre for asylum seekers, the BBC reported.
Earlier the conservative government has instituted the “Pacific solution” under which asylum seekers were detained on the Pacific island of Nauru while their claims were processed.
Mr. Bowen said the best deterrent would be a rigorous system of checks on whether applicants fulfilled conditions to be granted refugee status.
Meanwhile the Australian government has unveiled plans for two more detention centres to accommodate an increasing number of asylum seekers. It also announced that children and family groups would be moved from detention into community-based accommodation.
The new detention centres in Perth and Adelaide will house 2,000 people.
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