FED:Compromise on boats stalls at start line=2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2011
FED:Compromise on boats stalls at start line=2

Greens leader Bob Brown later said it was inevitable that boats would continue to arrive
- whether Australia had offshore or onshore processing.

"There is no end to it," he told reporters in Canberra.

That meant authorities had an obligation to track asylum seekers as they made the perilous
sea journey to Australia.

"If we know that boats are on the move they should be tracked all the way," Senator Brown said.

"It's inevitable some people are going to set off in boats ... and get into trouble
and we need to give them assistance when that happens."

The Greens also want Australia to increase its refugee intake by almost 10,000 to 25,000
people annually.

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