Murray Silby, Greg Dyett and Stefan Armbruster
October 2nd, 2013
Questions are being raised over whether Australia acted lawfully when it sent seven West Papuan asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea after they were apprehended in the Torres Strait.
Greg Dyett and Stefan Armbruster reports.
People in fear for their lives or political activists intent on grandstanding?
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the seven are in the latter category and it was appropriate for them to be transported to Port Moresby under a 2003 Memorandum of Understanding with Papua New Guinea.
The seven from the Indonesian province of West Papua, including a 10-year-old child, took part in a ceremony involving the handover of sacred water and ashes from Australian Indigenous elders.
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