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Australian Lawmaker Wants to Revive Working Group on Changing Asylum Policy

© AP Photo / Rick RycroftAsylum seekers at Australia's detention center on the island of Nauru gather on one side of a fence to talk with international journalists about their journey that brought them there.
Asylum seekers at Australia's detention center on the island of Nauru gather on one side of a fence to talk with international journalists about their journey that brought them there. - Sputnik International
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Member of the Australian House of Representations from the Labour Party Steve Georganas is seeking to revive the cross-party working group for looking at ways to create a more humane asylum policy for the country following the recent revelations of human rights abuses at the Australia-run Nauru migrant detention center, media reported Monday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) On August 10, The Guardian newspaper published over 2,000 leaked files about the situation in the asylum-seeker center on Nauru, revealing large-scale abuse, with 51.3 percent of cases involving minors.

"We haven’t solved the refugee problem, and we never will. We are just going to have to deal with it…We don’t want to return to a situation where people drown at sea, but we can’t detain people for indefinite periods. It’s insane," Georganas told The Guardian Australia.

He added that he wanted to introduce the new initiative next week during the next session of the Australian parliament.

Australia sends refugees, who come to the country to seek asylum, to offshore detention camps on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru in the South Pacific while their applications are being processed by Canberra. Australia's policy in regard to asylum seekers has been repeatedly criticized by rights groups for disregarding their human rights.

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