Asylum system flooded but deportations slow to a trickle
Deportations of failed asylum-seekers have dried up as new arrivals flood the system in record numbers, causing a backlog the opposition warns will take a decade to clear.
Tagged: Sri Lanka
Excellent results in North, East rehabilitation and resettlement – top UN Official
Sri Lanka has achieved excellent results in its Northern and Eastern rehabilitation and resettlement programme and post-conflict economic development drive.
People smugglers operate on streets of Dandenong
The syndicates, which use GPS tracking and mobile phone messaging systems, boast they can reunite family and friends with relatives living in Australia within months, if not weeks.
Convert to Federalism or Trigger Secession?
The affable TNA parliamentarian Mr. MA Sumanthiran has recently authored an essay definitively entitled ‘Self Determination: Myth and Reality’ in the Sunday Edition of Ceylon Today (July 29, 2012, p 9). It brings into sharp relief the central dilemma of post-war nation-building and state-building, be it from above or below, by state and civil society, by this or any other administration.
