Crikey media wrap: Julia Gillard’s plan of changing the Migration Act remains in troubled waters, with both the Coalition and Labor MPs threatening to sink the refugee policy.
Asylum seekers
Malcolm Fraser: High Court offers govt chance to seize high ground
Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser sent the following letter to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen last week …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The morality of offshore processing
Crikey readers have their say.
The morality of offshore
processing
Determining what our moral obligations are toward asylum seekers can be confusing, because it’s not about personal morality.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Aesop would love our asylum-seeker dilemma
Crikey readers have their say.
Political snippets: A simple solution for Tony Abbott
I don’t understand the suggestion by some commentators that Labor has presented Tony Abbott with a difficult decision over legislation designed to overturn the recent High Court decision on asylum seekers.
Abbott stays quiet on refugee policy
Crikey media wrap: Prime Minister Julia Gillard convinced her Labor caucus to back changes to the Migration Act in order to legalise the Malaysia refugee swap, but will Tony Abbott support them?
Essential: Gillard down again, but support for offshoring, pokies reform
Julia Gillard has hot a new low in today’s Essential Report. But there’s support for the government in asylum seeker processing and pokies.
Malaysia Solution II: Gillard wins support
The ALP National Left has slammed Julia Gillard’s decision to allow immigration minister Chris Bowen carte blanche to decide the offshore processing fate of asylum seekers.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The lemmings are at the gate
Crikey readers have their say.
Malaysia deal not sunk yet
Media wrap: Julia Gillard is likely to rescue her High Court-doomed Malaysia Solution policy, with Labor MPs expected to back changes this morning to the current Migration Act to allow offshore processing.
What Metcalfe said … or is understood to have said
Was the head of Immigration verballed by journalists about social unrest? Well, yes and no …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Pacific Solution & towing boats back to Indonesia
Crikey readers have their say.
Asylum seekers: real solutions do not involve plugging the hole
There is a real opportunity for change since the High Court handed down its decision in relation to the Malaysian agreement, writes Caz Coleman, a member of the Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Seeking a solution on asylum seekers
Crikey reads have their say.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Seeking solutions to the Malaysia solution
Crikey readers have their say.
Onshore or offshore? That is the question
Crikey media wrap: Thanks to the High Court, Julia Gillard essentially has only two asylum seeker policy options: reinstate a Pacific Solution 2.0 with Tony Abbott’s help or abandon offshore processing altogether.
High Court skewers Howard, but Labor takes the blame
What the High Court has invalidated is fundamentally the Coalition’s policy: the obsession with offshore processing was entirely a creation of the Howard government … to Labor’s eternal shame, has allowed itself to be dragged along with it.
Asylum seekers … just two long-term options available
Predictably all the media pundits are viewing the High Court decision through the prism of “politics of sport” and not taking pause to consider how the matter of continuing boat arrivals should be handled, writes Jenny Norvick, a former DIAC staffer and voluntary refugee settlement worker.
Political snippets: Chatting about leadership
I’m quite sure that the journalists who wrote the leadership stories that dominate this morning’s papers actually did speak to Labor Party members.
High court battle fuels leadership speculation
Crikey media wrap: When the High Court struck down the government’s hyped Malaysia refugee plan this week, its decision started a media flurry about the government’s ability to rule — and Julia Gillard’s to lead.
podcast Canberra Calling: The Crikey solution to the non-solution podcast
Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey deputy editor Jason Whittaker discuss the High Court ruling against the Malaysian solution and what this means for the Gillard government.
Gillard wanted to be judged on asylum seekers
Julia Gillard identified asylum seekers as a key issue for her. Now she deserves to be judged over the debacle.
Political snippets: Kevin can be forgiven a chuckle
As yesterday’s High Court judgment made clear the Department of Foreign Affairs got it right and Immigration (and presumably Attorney Generals) got it wrong.
