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Twenty-five years on, ASRC urges end to ‘politics of fear’ after Tampa - The Indian Sun

Australia should abandon a quarter-century of refugee policy built on deterrence and punishment, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has said on the 25th anniversary of the Tampa affair. On August 26, 2001, the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa rescued 433 people, mostly refugees from Afghanistan, from a fishing vessel north of Christmas Island. The Howard government refused to allow the vessel to land its passengers in Australia, setting in motion the…
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theindiansun.com.au broke the news on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
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