Pacific Solution

Australia's controversial Pacific Solution -- Analysis

MV Tampa Crisis 2021

Friends, this research article which written in 2007 had outlined the legal limits of the offshore detention. The article seeks to distinguish, within public debates about refugees, between Australia's international legal obligations vs. aspirational adherence to 1951 Refugee Convention etc.. The aspirational adherence to Convention basically means that the general public or human rights campaigners say the government "ought to" do in regards to refugees.