tampa affair造句

• Two significant controversies involving asylum seekers were the Children Overboard affair and the Tampa Affair.
• In 2002, Tasmanian Liberal candidate Greg Barns was disendorsed following comments opposing Government action taken over the Tampa affair.
• It included mostly Hazara from Afghanistan rescued during the Tampa affair, who were protesting for the review of their cases.
• He said that he had not received an apology from the Australian government about its handling of the Tampa affair and did not expect one.
• During the 11 September attacks and the so-called Tampa affair dominated the campaign, the loss would effectively end all serious opposition to the GST.
• In 2001, Nauru was brought to world attention by the Tampa affair, a Norwegian cargo ship at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia.
• During the Tampa affair in 2001, Kadak was one of several journalists on the ground in Christmas Island, and his report included pictures of Australian troops boarding the ship.
• The Australia Government denied the MV Tampa ship, and asylum seekers it had rescued, permission to dock at the nearest landfall of Christmas Island ( see Tampa affair ).
• The idea for a video game centred on asylum seekers in Australia came to Katharine Neil, then an developer at Atari's Melbourne studio, in the aftermath of the 2001 Tampa affair.
• The OPC facilities were part of what became known as the " Pacific Solution ", a policy of the Howard Government in Australia, which was implemented in the wake of the Tampa affair.
• He acted for Victoria's chief civil liberties organisation in an action against the Australian Government over the Tampa affair and vehemently criticised John Howard's Government for its mandatory detention of asylum seekers arriving in Australia.
• As Minister for Foreign Affairs, Downer played a role in the diplomatic dispute known as the Tampa affair in 2001 in which Australia denied permission for the " MV Tampa " to dock at Christmas Island, having picked up a number of asylum seekers trying to get to Australia by boat.
• The second track released, " 77 % ", featured the line " 77 % of Aussies are racist ", referring to the number of Australians announced in a survey that agreed with the Australian federal government's response to the Tampa affair, and also directly attacked the perceived racism of a number of Australian radio talkback hosts, caused a small stir which gained the track more publicity.
• Soon after the centre was opened in 2001, the attention brought to asylum seekers issues by the Tampa affair in August of that year  when the Australian Government, under Prime Minister John Howard, refused to grant the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, which had rescued 438 Afghan asylum seekers, permission to enter Australian waters  led to a greater interest in the centre and more volunteers signing up.