Pacific Solution
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pacific-solution-181-6962739
title:
Pacific Solution
text:
The Pacific Solution is the name given to the government of Australia's policy of transporting asylum seekers to detention centres on island nations in the Pacific Ocean, rather than allowing them to land on the Australian mainland. Initially implemented from 2001 to 2007, it had bipartisan support from the Coalition and Labor opposition at the time. The Pacific Solution consisted of three central strategies:
- Thousands of islands were excised from the Australian migration zone and Australian
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Australian asylum policy from 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
date created:
2004-10-25T05:16:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T20:59:54Z
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