Victorian MP Laura Smyth demands the government develop clear guidelines for the controversial test for asylum seekers A boat full of asylum seekers is shipwrecked off Australia's Christmas Island. Those who arrived after 13 August are subject to the No Advantage Test. Photograph: The West Australian/AFP/Getty Images Labor backbenchers are hopeful the government will concede that asylum seekers need some idea of how long they have to wait under the "test" which dictates those arriving by boat be processed no faster than those who stay for years in camps overseas. Prime minister Julia Gillard told Guardian Australia in a recent interview that if the government explicitly defined its...
↧