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*** 24-Jul-18 World View -- Australia sends refugees to Taiwan hospitals to keep them from Australian soil

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  • Australia sends refugees to Taiwan hospitals to keep them from Australian soil
  • Once secret refugee deal sends refugees to Taiwan's hospital

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**** Australia sends refugees to Taiwan hospitals to keep them from Australian soil
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The East Lorengau Refugee Transit Center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (AP)

The government of Australia recently revealed a previously secret
agreement with Taiwan, allowing refugees and asylum seekers in
detention but requiring hospitalization to be sent to Taiwan's
hospitals, rather than to Australia's hospitals.

On July 19, 2013, then prime minister Kevin Rudd signed an agreement
with Papua New Guinea (PNG) called "the regional resettlement
agreement." Under this agreement, refugees and asylum seekers
arriving by boat without a visa would be sent to Manus Island in PNG,
and would have "no chance" of being resettled in Australia as
refugees. Another agreement signed with Nauru provided for refugees
to be send to refugee centers there as well.

Last week was the five year anniversary of that agreement. It's
estimated that there are almost 800 refugees in the male-only
facilities in Papua New Guinea and almost 900 men, women and children
in Nauru.

The policy has been extremely controversial, and has been opposed by
humanitarian organizations, who claim that the refugee centers in PNG
and Nauru are filthy and unsafe, with numerous stories of beatings,
torture and sexual abuse.

Despite the objections from activists, the policy has been extremely
successful in meeting its objectives. While there had previously been
tens of thousands of "boat people" per year arriving in Australia,
that number has been reduced to almost none, because refugees know
that they will be transferred to one of the offshore detention
centers. Australian officials claim that thousands of refugees'
lives have been saved, since they didn't attempt the risky boat trip
with human traffickers.

One of the loopholes in the policy had to do with treating serious
illnesses among the refugees. If the refugee or a family member
requires hospitalization, then there was no choice but to transfer him
to a hospital on Australian soil.

Once on Australian soil, the vast majority have been able to stay
indefinitely by preparing applications for High Court injunctions
against their return. The court has yet to hear a case, apparently
for fear of a ruling that would grant permanent asylum within
Australia to a much larger group of asylum seekers. Instead, the
government has avoided court cases by granting these refugees bridging
visas that permit them to stay without a court case.

However, last month, a 14 year old girl in a Nauru detention center
from Iran who had attempted suicide was moved under court order, along
with her family, to a psychiatric hospital in Australia. The case was
about to be heard in federal court but, just as proceedings commenced,
the Australian government agreed to move her and her family to
Australia.

The United Nations human rights agency has repeatedly condemned as
arbitrary and illegal Australia's indefinite detention of
refugees. The longest in detention is an Afghan asylum seeker, who has
been held in Australian detention centers continuously since 2009.
According to Australian human rights lawyer Alison Battisson

<QUOTE>"Australia’s policies are against international law
and are inhumane,” she said. “In a modern society this practice is
unacceptable. Despite numerous opinions and reports from the UN
and other human rights bodies, Australia has consistently failed
to address arbitrary detention."<END QUOTE>


Battison adds: "The Australian government’s lack of response is
shameful. It is also insulting to the UN." Catholic Outlook and AP and Guardian (London)

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**** Once secret refugee deal sends refugees to Taiwan's hospital
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Last month, it was revealed that in September of last year, Taiwan and
Australia had signed a secret deal to send asylum seekers from Nauru
to Taiwan for medical treatment.

According to Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wu, the refugees will
receive medical care, and will return to Nauru after recovering, with
all expenses paid by Australia's government:

<QUOTE>"We are offering our cutting-edge medical technology
to help these poor refugees. They are all part of a deal we made
with the Australian government. ...

This is something we in Taiwan should be proud of. We are sharing
our medical resources with other countries and these unfortunate
people."<END QUOTE>


Under the agreement, Taiwan Adventist Hospital has received ten
refugees so far, starting in January. Australia's Home Affairs
Department spokesman said that Taiwan was "consistently ranked as
having some of the best hospitals and medical technology in the
world."

Australian officials apparently had been talking to several Pacific
countries to make this kind of deal. Taiwan was chosen because of its
political predicament -- China is a member of the United Nations, but
Taiwan is not. Since Taiwan is not a UN member, it is therefore not a
signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, meaning it is not
automatically bound to hear asylum applications. Therefore, the
refugees cannot claim protection in Taiwan, and can be returned to
Nauru. Sydney Morning Herald (22-Jun) and Focus Taiwan (26-Jun) and Lowy Interpreter (Australia)

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Australia, Taiwan,
Papua New Guinea, PNG, Manus Island, Nauru, Kevin Rudd,
Joseph Wu, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Alison Battisson

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