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...John Howard denied there was any need to raise the country's terror threat above its current 'medium' level, but warned Tuesday that "there are people in our midst who would do us harm and evil, if they ever had the opportunity to do so." Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, meanwhile, ruled out any evidence of plots in Australia connected to the U.K. strikes...
...seemed like old times last week when Philip Ruddock stepped forward to defend Australia's immigration stance. Five years ago, as Immigration Minister, he steered into law the so-called Pacific Solution to discourage boatloads of asylum seekers. Now, as acting Immigration Minister, he was championing the latest version of that policy against criticism from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Australia was doing nothing wrong, he insisted. Under the new measures, revealed last month, it "will meet its international refugee protection obligations...
...Convention's key principles. Article 31, for example, specifies that refugees should not be penalized for illegally entering a country when fleeing directly from a place of persecution. In 2001, when most boat people reaching Australia were coming from the Middle East and South Asia via other countries, Ruddock emphasized the "need to differentiate between those directly fleeing and those making secondary movements for migration reasons." Under the new policy, Foster says, even those coming directly to Australia will be penalized by indefinite detention on remote islands without the access to courts and independent review tribunals available to asylum seekers...
...years. But many European governments have watched Australia's offshore processing experiment "with considerable interest," says Christopher McDowell, director of the London-based Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees. When the Pacific Solution was first unveiled, McDowell says, European officials were "clamoring to meet" then Immigration Minister Ruddock "to glean as much as they could about the proposals...
...Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...