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Article: Australia acted legally in rejecting refugees; Court ruling condones government's refusal of asylum seekers.(News)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2001
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The Australian government acted legally when it refused entry to 433 asylum seekers saved from a sinking Indonesian ferry by a Norwegian cargo ship, a court ruled yesterday.
A full bench hearing of the Federal Court in Canberra overturned by two-to-one an earlier ruling by a single judge that Australian authorities illegally detained the asylum seekers aboard a Norwegian freighter, the Tampa.
The Tampa had rescued the refugees, most of them Afghans, on August 26, near the remote Australian outpost of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
The ...