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3. Assange launches party to contest Australia polls

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Thu Jul 25, 2013, 03:48 AM

Jul 2013

Agence France-Presse
July 25, 2013 03:10

... A key plank of Rudd's re-election campaign is a hardline response to deter boatpeople, announcing last week that all unauthorised arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea for assessment. They will be either settled there, sent back home or shipped to third countries.

Assange said one of his party's first actions would be to demand full details of the government's arrangement with PNG to be made public.

"Under the Migration Act 1951 Australia retains an obligation to Australia-bound asylum-seekers it may 'transfer' to PNG," he said.

"Considering PNG's developing country status the Australian government must disclose how it will assist the PNG to financially support resettled refugees" ...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130725/assange-launches-party-contest-australia-polls

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