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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Trump will honor Australia refugee deal, despite calling it 'worst deal ever'
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Australia's refugee detention center on the Pacific island of Nauru
Australian officials, led by Australia's prime minister Malcolm
Turnbull, have said that the plan to resettle up the 1,250 refugees
from Australia in the United States had been "confirmed several times
over" by Donald Trump administration officials.
The deal was made in November by President Barack Obama in the waning
days of his administration. The US will take 1,250 refugees that
Australia has sent to two "detention centers" on Pacific islands, one
on Papua New Guinea's (PNG's) Manus Island, and one on the island
nation of Nauru, under agreements reached with both countries. The
reason that they had been sent to detention centers is not because
they were known to have committed crimes, but because they had arrived
by boats run by human traffickers. Australia has refused to let them
resettle on Australian soil in order to discourage human trafficking,
and the policy has actually been very successful in that regard.
Nonetheless, the detention centers are considered to be violations of
international law for several reasons, including the fact that they're
described as filthy and rat-infested, with numerous stories of
beatings, torture, and sexual abuse.
Although the deal was announced in November, it's been mostly ignored
until last week when president Donald Trump held a phone conversation
with Australia's president Malcolm Turnbull. The mainstream media
described the phone call as contention, and claimed that Trump had
hung up on Turnbull, something that both Trump and Turnbull have
derided as "fake news."
Trump characterized the refugee deal as "the worst deal ever," and
there was speculation that Trump would cancel the deal. However,
Trump took the position that he was bound by the international
agreements made by the previous administration, and he has confirmed
that the US will take in up to 1,250 of these refugees, after
subjecting each of them to "extreme vetting." Australian Broadcasting and Business Insider and CNBC
Related Articles
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**** Australian politics in turmoil over refugee deal
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Australian politics were already pretty toxic over the use of
the Pacific island refugee detention centers, but the news about
the Trump-Turnbull phone call and the new attention given to
the US-Australia refugee deal has caused additional turmoil:
With regard to the last point, the Trump-Turnbull phone call was
not the only event in the last week to reignite the refugee debate.
A 37 year old woman refugee known only as "Dee" had requested in
December to be flown from the Nauru detention center to Australia to
care for a high-risk pregnancy. Australia refused, infuriating
activists, but finally was forced on Friday to permit her to come to a
hospital in Brisbane.
Ironically, citizens of Nauru may be approved for transfer to
Australian hospitals, but since Dee was a refugee, her transfer was
not approved (until Friday). Canberra Times and Special Broadcasting Service (Australia) and Stuff (New Zealand) and BBC and Red Flag
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Australia, Malcolm Turnbull,
Papua New Guinea, PNG, Manus Island, Nauru
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Trump will honor Australia refugee deal, despite calling it 'worst deal ever'
- Australian politics in turmoil over refugee deal
****
**** Trump will honor Australia refugee deal, despite calling it 'worst deal ever'
****
Australia's refugee detention center on the Pacific island of Nauru
Australian officials, led by Australia's prime minister Malcolm
Turnbull, have said that the plan to resettle up the 1,250 refugees
from Australia in the United States had been "confirmed several times
over" by Donald Trump administration officials.
The deal was made in November by President Barack Obama in the waning
days of his administration. The US will take 1,250 refugees that
Australia has sent to two "detention centers" on Pacific islands, one
on Papua New Guinea's (PNG's) Manus Island, and one on the island
nation of Nauru, under agreements reached with both countries. The
reason that they had been sent to detention centers is not because
they were known to have committed crimes, but because they had arrived
by boats run by human traffickers. Australia has refused to let them
resettle on Australian soil in order to discourage human trafficking,
and the policy has actually been very successful in that regard.
Nonetheless, the detention centers are considered to be violations of
international law for several reasons, including the fact that they're
described as filthy and rat-infested, with numerous stories of
beatings, torture, and sexual abuse.
Although the deal was announced in November, it's been mostly ignored
until last week when president Donald Trump held a phone conversation
with Australia's president Malcolm Turnbull. The mainstream media
described the phone call as contention, and claimed that Trump had
hung up on Turnbull, something that both Trump and Turnbull have
derided as "fake news."
Trump characterized the refugee deal as "the worst deal ever," and
there was speculation that Trump would cancel the deal. However,
Trump took the position that he was bound by the international
agreements made by the previous administration, and he has confirmed
that the US will take in up to 1,250 of these refugees, after
subjecting each of them to "extreme vetting." Australian Broadcasting and Business Insider and CNBC
Related Articles
****
**** Australian politics in turmoil over refugee deal
****
Australian politics were already pretty toxic over the use of
the Pacific island refugee detention centers, but the news about
the Trump-Turnbull phone call and the new attention given to
the US-Australia refugee deal has caused additional turmoil:
- People on the left generally want all the refugees in the
Pacific island detention centers to be brought to Australian soil and
settled there. They point out that Australia is the sixth-largest
country in the world geographically, with the seventh-lowest
population density, and so they could easily resettle many
refugees.
- People on the right point out that the real evil is the human
traffickers who charge thousands of dollars per refugee to transport
them by boat, hoping to reach Australian soil. They say that the
detention centers have drastically reduced the number of refugees
attempting the boat trip, and so have also drastically reduced the
amount of human trafficking.
- Turnbull is being accused of giving Trump a quid pro quo in
return for going ahead with the refugee deal. In particular, the
accusation is that Turnbull was forced to agree to military
participation in a future war when Trump requests it. Turnbull has
vigorously denied this accusation.
- Some people are accusing Australia's government of humanitarian
cruelty for having a policy of refusing to bring refugees from the
detention centers to Australia in the case of a medical emergency, for
fear that once on Australian soil, they'll never leave.
With regard to the last point, the Trump-Turnbull phone call was
not the only event in the last week to reignite the refugee debate.
A 37 year old woman refugee known only as "Dee" had requested in
December to be flown from the Nauru detention center to Australia to
care for a high-risk pregnancy. Australia refused, infuriating
activists, but finally was forced on Friday to permit her to come to a
hospital in Brisbane.
Ironically, citizens of Nauru may be approved for transfer to
Australian hospitals, but since Dee was a refugee, her transfer was
not approved (until Friday). Canberra Times and Special Broadcasting Service (Australia) and Stuff (New Zealand) and BBC and Red Flag
Related Articles
- Papua New Guinea Supreme Court bombshell throws Australia's refugee policy into chaos (30-Apr-2016)
- Australia accused of paying people smugglers to take migrants to Indonesia (13-Jun-2015)
- Australia to send 'boat people' to Papua New Guinea (21-Jul-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Australia, Malcolm Turnbull,
Papua New Guinea, PNG, Manus Island, Nauru
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