{"id":2717,"date":"2013-08-07T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2013-08-07T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:27:30","slug":"rudds-hardline-on-asylum-seekers-9news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"Rudd&#8217;s hardline on asylum seekers  (9News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">19 July 2013.<\/span><\/strong> Just a few hours before the Prime Minister attended the Rooty Hill event, he made an announcement on national television that boat people will never be allowed to resettle in Australia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>From now on, any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as a refugee<\/em>,&#8221; Mr. Rudd told reporters in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Asylum seekers arriving at Christmas Island will be sent to Australia&#8217;s Manus Island processing centre and elsewhere in Papua New Guinea for assessment of their refugee status.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they are found to be genuine refugees, they will be resettled in Papua New Guinea,&#8221; Mr. Rudd said. The temporary facility on the island currently houses 215 people in tents and shelters.<\/p>\n<p>A permanent 600-bed facility is due for completion in January. Mr Rudd said the arrangement would apply for the next 12 months, and be subject to annual review.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asylum seekers who are determined to be genuine refugees will therefore have a country of settlement, namely Papua New Guinea.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 July 2013. Just a few hours before the Prime Minister attended the Rooty Hill event, he made an announcement on national television that boat people will never be allowed to resettle in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}