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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.

▻http://www.watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/india-will-want-something-in-return-for-taking-asylum-seekers-20140728-z

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Opposition slams #Australia government for refusal to call #East_Jerusalem ’occupied’
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/australian-opposition-blasts-government-refusal-call-east-jerusal

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An Israeli policeman aims his gun at Palestinian protesters during a rally marking “Naksa Day,” the 47th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War, at Damascus Gate in Arab east #jerusalem on June 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad Gharabli)

Australia has decided to remove the term “occupied” when referring to East Jerusalem in a move blasted by an opposition party leader Friday as “inflammatory” and “at odds with the peace process.” The issue flared in the upper house Senate this week with Attorney-General George Brandis issuing a statement to clarify Canberra’s stance on the controversial question of the legality of settler homes. "The description of areas which are the subject of negotiations in the course of the peace process by reference to historical events is (...)

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