East Timor asylum seeker solution has not yet been killed outright, but only an unreconstructed optimist would now suggest its fate is other than sealed.
East Timor Solution
Queue jumping in East Timor
While there’s been increased support in the top East Timor government ranks for a refugee processing centre to be built in the country, most of the population is against the plan. Shona Hawkes in Dili explains the complex problems.
Is this a solution to the “Timor solution?”
Julia Gillard’s “Timor solution” has attracted much scrutiny, but her proposal to build an asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor has been buoyed with the news that a possible location has been found and official talks are reportedly set to begin shortly.
Rudd’s East Timor challenge
New Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd will know there won’t be any quick or easy “East Timor solution”, and there may not be one at all. So what will he do?
Julia might be ‘going forward’, but East Timor is standing firm
The vote by East Timor to oppose an Australian off-shore asylum seeker processing centre should not have come as a surprise. Only Labor wants to “move forward” on this one, writes Damien Kingsbury.
Will there be an East Timor Solution or not?
Daily Media Wrap: The above question is a simple one, perhaps, but not one the government appears to be capable of answering.
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: Timor solution a stuffed-up version of whatever it takes
Timor Leste is a horribly cynical choice, and still would be even if the negotiations had been sensibly handled and the government and populace had shown themselves willing.
Offshore processing a recipe for social collapse in East Timor
The Australian Government has an ‘in-principle’ fix to go to the polls with, but delays in reaching a formal agreement will cause real problems for the current Timorese Government as it edges closer to its next national elections, writes Robert Johnson.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Lunatics in control of asylum seeker policy
Crikey readers weigh in on the asylum seeker issue, discussing Labor’s rejigged stance on boat people.
Has Gillard back-flipped on boat people?
Daily Media Wrap: Just two days after announcing the government’s rejigged strategy on boat people, Julia Gillard appears to have taken a bizarre back-flip on the whereabouts of her proposed regional processing (read: detention) centre.
Gans: Let’s get in on this people smuggling business
What a mess asylum seeker policy appears to be, with so little clear articulation of what it is in the context of other options that existed. It’s all about looking “tough”, writes Joshua Gans.
Lessons in History: Asylum seeker fear is in the fabric of our nation
There exists an eternal and unshakeable fear within the Australian populace of those who come here from elsewhere seeking a better life. This fear is nothing new, writes Mike Stuchbery.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Gillard, rednecks and asylum seekers
Julian Burnside responds to Bernard Keane’s article yesterday. Plus, the passionate asylum seeker debate continues…
Sheridan: East Timor is not the solution
Finally common sense has returned to Julia Gillard’s actions with asylum seekers, writes Greg Sheridan. But it is a bare bones plan that deserves intense scrutiny.
In defence of Julia: it could have been worse
After the relentless nature of the attacks on her predecessor from the right-wing media, Julia Gillard must find it something of a relief that she is mostly drawing fire from the left. But some of the attacks lack a sense of perspective.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard makes the headlines over mining tax and refugees
Huge volume continues for the new Prime Minister, as she moved from a deal on the mining tax to a Timor Sea solution on asylum seekers
Someone forgot to tell East Timor
The view within Dili on Gillard’s border protection proposal, and East Timor’s role, was one of surprise — no one seems to have been forewarned, much less consulted about this proposal.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: What’s with “processing” people offshore?
Crikey readers weigh in on Julia Gillard’s asylum seeker policy. Plus Crikey readers on gay marriage, high rise development and Cosmos magazine.
Political snippets: Julia should try outer space
If Julia Gillard spent just a little time in the outer with her club’s working-class supporters, she might not make such ridiculous statements about the nature of their attitudes to race.
Crikey Says: Taking the nation’s pulse
In the closest we get to hitting the street for voxpops, Crikey does a sweep of talkback transcripts on hot button issues. Today — Gillard’s border protection policy: hot or not?
What would a proper regional solution look like?
Under Gillard’s new East Timor Solution, we may finally get a well resourced, properly administered regional refugee processing centre that has UNHCR participation and regional government cooperation, writes Possum Comitatus.
