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Australia May 30, 2011 – The new and tougher Australian immigration policy announced by Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen of deporting asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea and Malaysia has undergone criticisms from all sides.
Australia has recently announced that it will adopt a tough new immigration to Australia policy that is of sending asylum seekers to offshore detention centers such as Malaysia.

This tougher policy is aimed to discouraged and stop the flow of asylum seekers to Australia.

Australia has been swamped with asylum seekers in the recent years, which is blamed to the soft enforcement policies.

This new and unwelcome development has caused fierce criticism bombarded on Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd.

Taking the full brunt of the criticism, Foreign Minister Rudd still insisted on defending the government’s immigration policy.

Just recently, Australia together with the Malaysian government has made an agreement that will allow 800 asylum seekers to be deported from Australian to Malaysian detention facilities.

This new development in its immigration policy has added to Australia’s unsavory reputation of questionable treatment of asylum seekers.

Navi Pillay, the UN human rights commissioner, has openly condemned Australia’s agreement with Malaysia as she indicated out that the proposed agreement may be in breach of refugee law.

Pilay said that as a one of the signatory of the UN Refugee Convention, Australia has a duty to uphold its regulations and having mandatory detention for asylum seekers is a disturbing policy for a UN Refugee Convention signatory.

Arguing that asylum seekers would be treated fairly under the law, the Foreign Minister defended new governmental policy.

Though asylum seekers could expect to be house in “proper and human condition”, the issue is what defines “proper and humane conditions” which will be left to the governments of Australia and Malaysia.

Immigration to Australia by asylum seekers will be more uncertain as asylum seekers will have a slim chance of settling in Australia for they are instead be deported to Malaysia.

source:
whichwaytopayaustralia.com