20/5/08
Australia is planning to scrap the Pacific Solution for the asylum seekers who are still living in detention centers. A report by Radio Australia states that the country’s Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, ’says he has nearly finalised the cases involving a large number of long-term detainees who have been held for up to six years’ and that ‘he has decided what will happen to the 72 asylum seekers, but not all have been notified’. The Pacific Solution scheme was set up by the previous Howard government which ‘negotiated with a number of neighbouring countries in the Pacific region, including Nauru, to establish offshore detention centres’ to house the asylum seekers.
