Offshore Processing in Australia, also known as “the Debacle”, and the public’s opinion about it.
September 2011
The Australian Labor Party want to send illegal migrants to an offshore processing centre in a country that has NOT signed the United Nations refugee convention agreement. The Liberal party say this is wrong, and they should be sent to a country that has signed the agreement. The Liberal party are voting against this policy.
Go back a few years…
2001-2007
The Liberal Party were sending illegal migrants to an offshore processing centre in a country that had NOT signed the United Nations refugee convention agreement. The Australian Labor Party say this is wrong, and they should only be sent to a country that has signed the agreement. The Australian Labor Party, during the 2007 election campaigned to end this if they were elected.