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Debate is resuming in the UK parliament this week on a hotly contested Nationality and Borders Bill that seeks, in part, to replicate elements of Australia’s offshore processing system to “deter illegal entry” into the UK.
The proposal envisions sending asylum seekers to a third country for processing, similar to Australia’s use of Nauru and Manus Island in PNG.
As Madeline Gleeson argues today, however, Australia’s offshore processing system has been an abject policy failure, so it’s astonishing and troubling the UK would seek to replicate it.
Gleeson and her colleagues at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law provided a detailed submission to the UK parliament in October that argued against using Australia’s offshore processing system as a “model” for the UK.
In her piece today, she writes that sending asylum seekers offshore might sound like a convenient solution in theory. “But the reality of this policy in Australia has proven it to be difficult, ineffective, expensive, cruel and controversial.”
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