The researches came yesterday as the Greens and the Coalition joined forces and agreed to a Senate inquiry to the Malaysia plan, while government legal professionals contended for the plan in a directions hearing in the High Court. Next Monday the full bench of the court will hear a challenge by the Melbourne refugee lawyer David Manne, who opposes the project on humanitarian reasons.
The latest poll has revealed that a large number of Aussies support the idea of asylum seekers being processed in Australia. The most up-to-date Herald/Nielsen study of 1400 people was taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening hours, following High Court imposed an injunction on the Malaysia plan. The study finds out 53 percent of voters favored that asylum seekers arriving by vessel be allowed to land in Australia to be examined. Only 28 per-cent were feeling they must be delivered to a different country for assessment, the strategy of Labor and the Coalition, while 15 % said the arrivals need to be ''sent out to sea''.
Of people who considered asylum seekers should be processed in Australia, 55 per cent believed they should be kept in detention when being processed, and 41 % thought they must be allowed to reside in the community. 1 / 2 of people that opted for assessment in Australia or a third country thought those discovered to be refugees should be permitted to settle in Australia for good.
The Greens are the only party that promotes processing asylum seekers in Australia. The government's policy centers on Malaysia and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, although the Coalition would send the asylum seekers to Nauru. A Labor MP from Victoria, Anna Burke, spoke out last night against her party's Malaysia approach. ''I'm highly concerned that we can't actually be sure the protection of the people, the 800 who will be sent there,'' she revealed to the ABC. ''And I can't think that Manus Island can assist the task,'' she said, likening it to Nauru and also Howard government's so-called Pacific solution.
Within an affidavit filed in the High Court a day ago, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said discussions with Malaysian representatives directed him to decide the nation had produced a ''significant conceptual shift'' about its treatment of asylum seekers. ''The understanding that I formed from my conversations with the Minister of Home Affairs as well as other Malaysian representatives was that the Malaysian administration was eager to further improve its management of refugees and asylum seekers,'' he was quoted saying.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told the caucus this morning that she was ''convinced our legal case is effective''. Plans by the Greens' spokeswoman on immigration, Sarah Hanson-Young, to relate the Malaysia plan and the Manus Island task to a Senate inquiry, hit a snag when the Coalition decided only to assessing Malaysia.
The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said Manus Island was only a offer with out details. The Greens recognized the discussion and in return for the required figures to establish an inquiry, dropped the Manus Island portion. Mr Morrison said the committee would ask studies from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. It will also evaluate the Coalition's Nauru policy and the Greens' preferred alternative of mainland Australia.
Immigration Lawyer in Sydney Mr. Christopher Levingston said, both parties needs to understand that is not a matter of protecting our borders but a matter of Australia's obligation under international laws to assess every refugee claims that we receive onshore.
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