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...
Government quiet over reports Navy seeking to return Vietnamese asylum seekers
Updated 17 Apr 2015, 6:20pm
The Federal Government is refusing to confirm reports that the Navy is attempting to return a large group of asylum...
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...
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 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...
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...
Australia and Vietnam further cooperation to stamp out people smuggling
Monday, 12 December 2016
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security will...
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...