Green Left TV: Protests greet parliament's "offshore dumping" of refugees

August 15, 2012
Issue 
934
News
Video: Protests hit Australia's revival of refugee 'Pacific Solution'. GreenLeftOnline/YouTube.

An emergency action against a new bi-partisan plan to return to 'offshore processing' of refugees to Australia in detention camps in Nauru and PNG was one of several held around Australia on very short notice on August 15.

The federal Labor government colluded with the Liberal-National opposition to re-introduce this inhuman and discredited 'Pacific Solution' policy of the previous Howard Liberal-National government.

Filmed and edited by Peter Boyle for GLTV.

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