The Australian 25 March 2011
Customs were taking a boatload of asylum seekers to Broome as there was rioting on Christmas Island and on the way put them ashore on Ashmore Reef for an hour so that they will be processed as offshore arrivals rather than deemed to have made the mainland.
This strikes me as a particularly shitty thing to do.
Yes, it is. “Lucky Country” for whom?
What a farce. Thank you for highlighting this.