India will want something in return for taking asylum seekers
India has agreed to repatriate the Indian citizens, if there are any, of the 157 Tamil asylum seekers currently in the Curtin detention centre.
It will “consider” taking back the non-citizen residents of India who fled there from Sri Lanka.
And for this favour to the Australia government, what will it want in return? Nothing.
Four times yesterday, immigration minister Scott Morrison was asked if India had raised a quid pro quo, if they had even hinted at for what they might later come calling.
Mr Morrison’s answers: “Nothing. Nothing. No. No.”
This perhaps is so. But it will not remain this way. India will want something in return.
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