A High Court decision concerning the Refugee Status Assessment (RSA) process may undermine the government's offshore processing system.
On November 11, the court upheld a case put by two Tamil asylum seekers, who'd had their claims for asylum rejected.
Known as M61 and M69, the Tamils put the case that they had been denied the right to challenge their rejected claims in court.
The current two-stage RSA "offshore" process discriminates between asylum seekers who arrive by boat, known as "irregular arrivals", and those who arrive by other means, such as by plane.
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The federal election result and the surging Green vote have livened up the Victorian election campaign. The latest Newspoll figures show 19% support for the Greens, the and major parties are struggling to work out whether to launch a full-frontal attack or whether that would deliver more votes to the Greens.
The Greens are eating into Labor鈥檚 support base on the left and Labor is worried.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has voted for further industrial action, as vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer still refuses to negotiate in good faith on improvements to job security, pay and other conditions for staff.
A November 10 NTEU meeting voted for an indefinite ban on processing student results at the end of the second semester.
This is the second time staff have voted to carry out results bans this year. The dispute made headlines in July after management鈥檚 decision to stand down about 70 staff without pay.
Federal Liberal/National Coalition leader Tony Abbott left Normanton, in far north Queensland鈥檚 gulf country, on November 10, having failed to win Aboriginal elders' backing for his bill to repeal Queensland's Wild Rivers legislation.
The existing Wild Rivers legislation aims to protect the wilderness rivers of the tropical north, and provide Aboriginal control of employment and economic development in the region.
Having lived on the farm right next to the Northam army barracks since 1934, Eric Fox has seen a lot of people use the camp (and his farm) over the years.
鈥淭he army used the farm extensively [in the early years of World War Two] as an extension of their training ground鈥, Fox told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
鈥淟ater in the war, when the Italian prisoners of war were there, they weren鈥檛 very solidly interned 鈥 they walked over the farm as well. That didn鈥檛 worry us. They didn鈥檛 bother us.
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