Australia boat people plan wins crucial support
― AUSTRALIA: Plans to transfer asylum-seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to Pacific states won crucial support Tuesday, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard saying they could be processed offshore within a month. ∙ Canberra has struggled to stem an influx of boatpeople who make the dangerous sea voyage to Australia, and on Monday said it would move to handle their refugee claims on Nauru and Papua New Guinea. ∙ “Within a month we would hope to see people processed on Nauru and [...].
