Australia’s Abdication on the High Seas
In a recent commentary, “A Lifeline for Asia’s Boat People,” Gareth Evans praises Australia’s new policy for handling seaborne asylum seekers. But Australia's new deterrence strategy is deeply flawed, and will not reduce the number of deaths at sea.
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MELBOURNE – In a recent commentary, Gareth Evans describes Australia’s new policy for handling seaborne asylum seekers. Evans depicts this policy, proposed by a panel of experts as balanced, as being “aimed at reducing both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors driving refugee flows.”