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Bloomberg News - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
July 8 (Bloomberg) Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she is willing to discuss a disputed natural gas project in East Timor to help win support for a regional processing center in that country for asylum seekers.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s planned Sunrise gas project can be part of the negotiations if raised by East Timor, Gillard told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Lateline program last night. East Timor's Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres said his country was unlikely to accept her proposed refugee center, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
"I'm not promising a quick fix, I've said that this is going to take time but I am determined to relentlessly pursue," the center, Gillard said.
East Timor has clashed with Woodside over how to develop the liquefied natural gas venture. A plant in East Timor would generate jobs and "catapult" the economy, according to the country's president, Jose Ramos-Horta. Woodside and its partners, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, favor a floating plant.
Gillard on June 24 ousted former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose border policies were blamed for an influx in asylum seekers. About 3,576 refugees arrived on 76 boats so far this year, Immigration Department figures show, compared with 2,726 on 60 boats in 2009.
Gillard has spoken to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, Ramos-Horta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and New Zealand Prime Minister John Keyabout establishing the regional center.
Patrol Boats
Australia will also spend an extra A$24.8 million ($21 million) on border protection, including eight new patrol boats, extra police and improved computer capabilities.
Australia will accept 13,750 refugees and people who qualify under special humanitarian rules in the 12 months ending June 30, 2010, up from 13,507 in the previous year. The nation takes in 0.6 percent of the world's asylum seekers, Gillard said.
As of July 6, there were 2,567 people in detention on Christmas Island, an Australian territory more than 800 kilometers (497 miles) off the northwestern coast.
About 1,503 people, who arrived by boat were transferred to mainland detention centers in Sydney, Darwin, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and regional centers in Curtin and Leonora in Western Australia and Port Augusta in South Australia.
Editors: Bill Austin, Dave McCombs
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Bloomberg News - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
July 8 (Bloomberg) Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she is willing to discuss a disputed natural gas project in East Timor to help win support for a regional processing center in that country for asylum seekers.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s planned Sunrise gas project can be part of the negotiations if raised by East Timor, Gillard told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Lateline program last night. East Timor's Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres said his country was unlikely to accept her proposed refugee center, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
"I'm not promising a quick fix, I've said that this is going to take time but I am determined to relentlessly pursue," the center, Gillard said.
East Timor has clashed with Woodside over how to develop the liquefied natural gas venture. A plant in East Timor would generate jobs and "catapult" the economy, according to the country's president, Jose Ramos-Horta. Woodside and its partners, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, favor a floating plant.
Gillard on June 24 ousted former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose border policies were blamed for an influx in asylum seekers. About 3,576 refugees arrived on 76 boats so far this year, Immigration Department figures show, compared with 2,726 on 60 boats in 2009.
Gillard has spoken to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, Ramos-Horta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and New Zealand Prime Minister John Keyabout establishing the regional center.
Patrol Boats
Australia will also spend an extra A$24.8 million ($21 million) on border protection, including eight new patrol boats, extra police and improved computer capabilities.
Australia will accept 13,750 refugees and people who qualify under special humanitarian rules in the 12 months ending June 30, 2010, up from 13,507 in the previous year. The nation takes in 0.6 percent of the world's asylum seekers, Gillard said.
As of July 6, there were 2,567 people in detention on Christmas Island, an Australian territory more than 800 kilometers (497 miles) off the northwestern coast.
About 1,503 people, who arrived by boat were transferred to mainland detention centers in Sydney, Darwin, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and regional centers in Curtin and Leonora in Western Australia and Port Augusta in South Australia.
Editors: Bill Austin, Dave McCombs
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