Australia PM defends 'hardline' refugee approachAustralia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. has defended his "hardline and sensible approach" to refugee policy, after a people smuggling People smuggling is a term which is used to describe transportation of people across international borders to a non-official entry point of a destination country for a variety of reasons. boat was intercepted with almost 200 on board.
Rudd has come under sustained political attack over a surge in illegal entrants making for Australia this year, with a 15th boat carrying 194 asylum seekers intercepted off the northwest coast on Sunday. It was the biggest boatload boat·load n. The number of passengers or the amount of cargo that a boat can hold. Noun 1. boatload - the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car; "he imported wine by the boatload" of asylum seekers to arrive in Australia in eight years, taking the total arrivals since January to 825. A total of 179 boatpeople were intercepted in the whole of last year. Indonesian and Malaysian officials told local media up to 10,000 more boatpeople were waiting in Malaysia to travel to Australia, and the opposition party has blamed Rudd for taking a "soft" stance on refugees. But the centre-left leader, who relaxed the previous conservative government's policy of locking up boatpeople for years at a time, said he was taking a methodical me·thod·i·cal also me·thod·ic adj. 1. Arranged or proceeding in regular, systematic order. 2. Characterized by ordered and systematic habits or behavior. See Synonyms at orderly. , hardline approach to the problem. "The government has introduced hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new measures to work at country of origin, to work at our cop on the beat, the navy on the high seas high seas In maritime law, the waters lying outside the territorial waters of any and all states. In the Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large portions of the high seas. ," Rudd told commercial radio. "(There is) also a hardline system which says, if this is not a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being asylum seeker then they go back, go back to the country concerned." Rudd said a great deal of work was being done behind the scenes in countries of origin such as Indonesia and Malaysia to address the people smuggling issue. "I am not going to underestimate the problem," he said. "It's there, it's real, it's growing around the world, but we intend to be hardline and sensible in the way in which we handle it." More than 20 boats have arrived in Australia since Rudd's Labor government rolled back restrictive measures that regularly left asylum seekers, including children, locked up for years in immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. centres. Under the new system, introduced last September, claims must be processed swiftly, with mandatory six-monthly independent case reviews. 
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