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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Seeking solutions to the Malaysia solution
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.
Negotiating Malaysia agreement is one thing, seeing it through is another
The greatest challenge for Australia now lies in the reality that even if the boat arrivals cease, how else will we support our neighbouring countries to deal with a challenge of receiving asylum seekers that is far beyond our own scope, writes Caz Coleman, of the Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution.
Tracking the new journey for asylum seekers via Malaysia
What does an asylum seeker face on entering Australian waters under Australia’s new processing deal with Malaysia? Based on the policy detail and anecdotes from advocates and journalists, Crikey tracks the journey.
How can we tell if the Malaysian deal works?
It’s unclear whether the Malaysian deal will work and it has risks, but it is the least-worst solution currently available form the major parties.
Tens of thousands protest for electoral reform in Kuala Lumpur
The beleaguered Malaysian government responded to huge and rancourous protests on Saturday with the brute force of tear gas and water cannons, writes Terry Friel, who also photographed the weekend’s tumultuous events.
Malaysian PM to reformers: ‘Crushed bodies, broken bones, dead bodies’
The Malaysian government is deploying all of the tactics seen from Middle-Eastern dictators in an attempt to suppress the Bersih 2.0 movement
Malaysian solution to calls for electoral reform: arrests, threats
Malaysian students in Australia have been threatened by the Malaysian government, which is cracking down on calls for fairer elections.
Essential: no support for Malaysian solution, Coalition’s biggest lead
Voters would far prefer asylum seekers to be transferred to Nauru rather than Malaysia and nearly a third don’t like either option, new polling from Essential Research reveals.
podcast Canberra Calling: The happy days are at an end my friends podcast
This week Canberra Corespondent Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor Sophie Black tackle the live export trade, Labor’s divide over the Malaysian detention of asylum seekers and … Bob Katter.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Educating the electorate
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Victorian ALP takes on Gillard in state conference stoush
Progressive forces inside the Victorian ALP will debate a bevy of urgency motions at the party’s annual state conference tomorrow, with prime minister Julia Gillard condemned for her Malaysian Solution for boat people and stance on gay marriage.
Malaysian detention ‘nothing short of hell’, say locals
Burmese asylum seekers hope Malaysia’s immigration deal with Australia will see them end up Down Under. They wait in conditions well below acceptable standards, according to local advocates. Stuart Ranfurlie reports from Kuala Lumpur.
How does the Coalition really feel about asylum seekers?
The government’s asylum seeker deal with Malaysia seems to have altered the Coalition’s own policy.
Political snippets: Politics of the refugee deal
You could hardly call the initial reception to the refugee swap deal with Malaysia a resounding success.
You can’t jump a queue when there is no queue
With the federal government having announced a new asylum seekers deal with Malaysia, now is a good time to ditch tired rhetoric and acknowledge that terms like ‘queue jumpers’ are misleading and insensitive, writes Erdem Koc.
‘It felt like an electric shock’: life inside Malaysian detention
Asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia are often subjected to judicial canings, long periods of incarceration and arbitrary arrest, according to reports from within the country’s immigration detention system.
A strange absence in the palm oil labelling controversy
While Malaysian industrialists and local food manufacturers were railing against food labelling, there was a convenient omission from their story.
Asylum seekers escape from Malaysian detention centre
Police are using road blocks and tracker dogs as they try and hunt down 109 asylum seekers who burned down a Malaysian detention centre before escaping, writes Richard Farmer.
A fast food lovers’ guide to crazy KL: with added boom boom
I’ve been to bigger cities, more globally important cities, but none that seem to move this fast as Kuala Lumpur, with its oodles of street food options and constant “32 with thunderstorms” weather, writes Jason Whittaker.
Race, blood and blades: May 13, Malaysia’s longest day
May 13, 1969 incident was the day massive riots began in Kuala Lumpur. May 13, 2010, things are looking a little different, reports W H Chong.
Malaysia’s maid problem
Sometimes our South East Asian neighbours seem a lot further away, says W H Chong: Indonesia has imposed a moratorium on sending its citizens to work in Malaysia as maids, and Malaysians are very annoyed.
must read 
The world’s worst wildlife dealer exposed
A National Geographic expose on Anson Wong — the world’s most notorious smuggler of endangered species. Authorities spent decades bringing him to justice, so why is he now a free man, still trading in wildlife and about to open his very own zoo?
The good oil on palm oil
The UK advertising regulator has banned an ad by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council claiming that palm oil is ‘sustainable’ and contributes to ‘the alleviation of poverty, especially amongst rural populations’, reports Andrew Bartlett.
Asylum seeker experiences around the world
Amidst all the local coverage of Tamil asylum seekers in Indonesia, Andrew Bartlett looks at the experiences other asylum seekers are going through elsewhere on the globe.
