Humanelaw

Though Australia has customarily been kind to refugees, it is less liberal of asylum seekers who try to enter the state unlawfully.

The Government arrested all unlawful-entry shelter-seekers in five custody centers situated all over the state in anticipation of it can process their asylum requirements.The Government also has a custody camp in the island of Nauru. In 2003 it has seen numerous protests, more than thirty Afghanis held, and started a hunger protest, few stitching up their lips. They dropped their protest in January 2004.

Australia is enthusiastic to keep discarded boat group out of the mainland.Australia's shelter policies have been criticized by the UN, human rights groups, and the Governments.Tough policy: Australia has conventionally been kind to refugees. Since 1945, it has given shelter to half a million people.

Recently, Australia has developed a few of the toughest policies on the planet on refuge seekers who came into Australia unlawfully, in spite of the fact that a few people attempted to claim shelter in Australia than in European and North American Country.

The country assigns all unlawful shelter seekers to one of 6 custody centers situated all over the country.The shelters seekers have to wait for an indefinite period for their refuge requests to be processed by the Government.They waited as long as 5 years only to be sheltered.

There were people who rejected to turn back were detained on the underprivileged Pacific Islands of Nauru, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea where they waited for their refuge requests to be processed.
The Tampa case:

• In August 2001, four hundred thirty four shelter seekers on board a dipping Indonesian ship were saved by a Norway’s MV Tampa. The majority of the shelters from Afghanistan had traversed large distance to reach to Australia.
• The shelter –seekers stayed days at sea while Norway discussed with Indonesia and Australia for which state should be accountable for their safety.
• The Australian Government initially denied letting the refugee-laden Tampa come into Australia, but after a ten-day fight they were at last saved by the Australian naval force.

The Pacific Solution:

• New Zealand got a few of the shelter seekers, but the majorities were sent by Australia to a custody camp in Nauru.
• It was afterward exposed that Australia had paid Nauru $ thirty million to accept the shelter seekers.
The policy of transporting unlawful shelter seekers to Pacific Islands, which is also known as the 'Pacific Solution'.

The decision of Australia to stop unlawful immigrants from entering its coasts was received with exceptional criticism from the global community. A lot of protests led by shelter seekers in several custody centers only attracted global attention on the policies of Australia's immigration.

After riots, attempted suicides and group hunger strikes in custody centers, the United Nations inspected the situation of the centers. The UN published a report in June 2002 which stated that Australia was creating very melancholy among shelter seekers by holding them for an indefinite period. The United Nations Human Rights Commission also reported that it was a concern about the indefinite length of custody and conditions of the detention camps.An autonomous Government watchdog in Australia in October 2002, ordered immigration officials to justify the policy of custody of child shelter seekers.