{"id":1484,"date":"2007-11-30T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T23:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2007-11-30T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T23:19:21","slug":"pacific-solution-to-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/pacific-solution-to-be-abolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Solution to be abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about the fact that Kevin Rudd was elected as Australia&#8217;s new Prime Minister is the scrapping of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Solution\">Pacific Solution<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; an ominously-named plan that processed refugees seeking to come to Australia on offshore sites, including <a href=\"http:\/\/thisamericanlife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=253\">Nauru<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/pacific-solution-to-be-abolished\/2007\/12\/01\/1196394637575.html\">The Age<\/a><\/i>:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the policy, which was introduced following the Tampa crisis in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, asylum seekers intercepted before they reach the Australian mainland are processed at camps on Nauru and Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by Oxfam Australia and refugee advocacy group A Just Australia said the &#8220;flawed system&#8221; fuelled mental illness in refugees, failed to uphold Australia&#8217;s commitment under international law and squandered money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about the fact that Kevin Rudd was elected as Australia&#8217;s new Prime Minister is the scrapping of the &#8220;Pacific Solution&#8221; &#8212; an ominously-named plan that processed refugees seeking to come to Australia on offshore sites, including Nauru. The Age: Under the policy, which was introduced following the Tampa crisis in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, asylum seekers intercepted before they reach the Australian mainland are processed at camps on Nauru and Manus Island,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-australia","category-nauru","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-nW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}