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Katie, as far as I understand it, it's easier for people who are being persecuted by their own governments to escape their countries illegally. Not getting Visa's and avoiding going through their governments checkpoints at airports for the simple reason that they are being sought after by the...

Perhaps Australia should move towards the Swedish system. In Sweden, Illegally arrived asylum seekers are detained at first while their identities are established, and then again during the end stages of processing, to ensure compliance with rulings. Children are not detained for more than a...

Shady Characters From DIMIA statistics, only 11 of the 13,000 people who sought asylum in Australia were rejected on character grounds. Only one of these was considered a security risk, and he arrived by plane. Interestingly the people involved in the 2001 September 11 attacks, arrived in...

Labor had an identical position on the issue of mandatory detention for unauthorised entrants as the Liberals throughout the 1990s, continuing this support through to October 2002, even then only slightly softening its stance. Labor established mandatory detention policy in Australia in 1992.