Prime Minister Julia Gillard: Detention Camps

Australia Dept: Prime Minister Julia Gillard's centre-left Labor Party had long argued against the concept of Australian-funded detention camps on the island nations as an expensive waste of money that would fail to deter new arrivals, according to Vancouver Sun. The decision was a spectacular back down in the divisive political debate about how to stop the growing number of asylum seekers reaching Australia in rickety fishing boats and cANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister announced a sharp reversal in her government's policy on asylum seekers on Monday, saying it will introduce legislation allowing their deportation to the poor Pacific nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to face lengthy stays in detention camps. But she said her government has accepted the recommendation of an expert panel on Monday to reopen camps established a decade ago by a conservative administration, and that legislation to enable the deportation of asylum seekers will be introduced to Parliament when it resumes Tuesday after a six-week break. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.