Law Dean Critical of Labor’s ‘Pacific Solution’
Professor James C. Hathaway, Dean of the Melbourne Law School and a leading expert in international refugee law, has argued that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s recent appeal to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to detain a boat-load of Sri Lankans off Krakatoa Island is reminiscent of the Howard government’s highly-criticised ‘Pacific Solution’ scheme.
To read Professor Hathaway’s article, ‘Labor’s subtler Pacific Solution is just as shameful’, published in The Canberra Times, 19 October, 2009, click here (The same article, published under the title ‘On one point, Ruddock is right’, appeared in the National Times, 19 October 2009).
For comments made by Professor Hathaway on ABC TV’s News Breakfast segment, ‘Asylum problem needs “Australian Solution”’, 29 October 2009, click here.
Professor Hathaway has also recently been interviewed as follows:
‘Debate mounts over asylum seekers’, Lateline, ABC TV, 2 November 2009
‘Indonesian Solution’, Australia Talks, ABC Radio National, 2 November 2009