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Vietnamese asylum seekers returned by plane in the dead of night: reports

Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to comment on reports the Vietnamese asylum seekers had been returned, saying it wasn't his government's job to "run...

Asylum seekers returned to Vietnam by Australian Navy had claims assessed at sea, UNHCR...

PHOTO: HMAS Choules completed its mission to transfer the group back to Vietnam. (www.navy.gov.au) AM By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley Updated 21 Apr 2015, 9:29am The...

Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Attempt to Reach Australia a Second Time

2017-02-08 Three Vietnamese families returned by Australian authorities last year after they tried to illegally migrate there have fled Vietnam a second time by boat...

Australia returned 46 asylum seekers to Vietnam, says immigration minister

An Australian navy boat (left) shadowing a boat believed to be carrying asylum seekers in July 2012. Photograph: BASARNAS/AFP/Getty Images Paul Farrell Tuesday 5 May 2015...

Fears returned Vietnamese asylum seekers are being grilled in police detention

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. Photo: Andrew Meares Heath Aston APRIL 23 2015 Asylum seekers who were returned to Vietnam by the Australian Navy last week are...

Tony Abbott tight-lipped on suspected Vietnamese asylum seeker boat

Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Photo: Andrew Meares Nicole Hasham July 21 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to say how a suspected boat of Vietnamese asylum...

Asylum seekers arrive in WA’s north-west

Updated 20 Jul 2013, 6:52pm Locals who watched 17 asylum seekers being transferred to the mainland at Dampier in WA's north-west on Friday night say...

Suspected asylum seeker vessel heading for Dampier off WA’s North West coast

Updated 20 Jul 2015, 5:39pm A suspected asylum seeker boat has been spotted off Dampier in Western Australia's North West region. A Federal Government source has...

Suspected asylum seeker boat ‘unlikely to dock’ after interception, WA water police say

PHOTO: The suspected asylum seeker boat near a cargo ship off Dampier on Monday (ABC TV) By Charlotte Hamlyn Updated 21 Jul 2015, 1:30pm Police assisting in...

Navy reportedly moves to intercept boat carrying Vietnamese asylum seekers

An image taken from ABC news footage of the suspected asylum seeker vessel off the coast of Western Australia on Monday. Photograph: ABC news Western...