'Pacific Solution' gathers pace in Nauru

By Dylan Welch
Updated September 20 2012 - 3:01pm, first published September 18 2012 - 8:15am
Arrival ... a Tamil asylum seeker disembarks from the plane in Nauru.
Arrival ... a Tamil asylum seeker disembarks from the plane in Nauru.
Green and khaki canvas tents at the asylum-seeker accommodation centre in Nauru await the arrival of more refugees.
Green and khaki canvas tents at the asylum-seeker accommodation centre in Nauru await the arrival of more refugees.

ANOTHER planeload of Tamil asylum seekers touched down on the Pacific island of Nauru early this morning, the second since Labor restarted the Howard-era "Pacific Solution", and after a short breakfast were being shown to the tents that will be their homes for the months until permanent accommodation is built.

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