Peter Dutton is desperately trying to avoid the implications of the PNG Supreme Court ruling in April that the agreement between Australia and PNG was unlawful.<\/p>\n
No amount of huffing and puffing or repeating the tired phrase that \u2018no refugee from Manus will be resettled in Australia\u2019 can alter the fact the asylum seekers were taken to Manus unlawfully.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter Dutton is shamefully trying to avoid the decisions of the PNG Supreme Court. He has to face up to the fact that Australia has responsibility for those people that Australia illegally transferred to Manus Island,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe PNG Supreme Court hearing on Monday 22 August will determine the future of those who have been held unlawfully and systematically denied their human rights. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeter Dutton and Peter O\u2019Neill will be required to accept the court\u2019s rulings. People who were illegally taken to Manus Island cannot be forced to stay in PNG against their will.<\/p>\n
\u201cLawyers acting for the asylum seekers and refugees on Manus will seek orders for the immediate, and unconditional release of all those on Manus, and for those who wish to go, to be returned to Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no durable or secure settlement arrangement in PNG. It is a joke that Dutton keeps referring to resettlement in PNG. He should stop providing gratuitous advice to the Australian media and start to implement the PNG Supreme Court decision. It is increasingly obvious that Dutton has no grasp of the real situation that confronts the Australian government.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have been brutalised on Manus for over three years, and have been waiting since April when the court ordered that they be freed.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor those who do not wish to go to Australia \u2013 some people have families in other countries \u2013 PNG and Australia will need to secure safe, acceptable third countries and provide travel documents in order for them to travel to that third country.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter Dutton also needs to act immediately to release all the Manus asylum seekers and refugees being held in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout Nauru, Peter Dutton also knows that the government\u2019s own Moss review established the truthfulness of the incident reports that were reviewed in 2015. It is the Minister who can no longer be taken seriously.\u201d <\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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