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Australia: Asylum

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN HL3495, tabled on 22 November 2017

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions, whether through Commonwealth channels or otherwise, they have had regarding the achievement of humane improvements in the current treatment of refugees and asylum applicants seeking to enter Australia.

Answered on

7 December 2017

Our High Commission to Canberra most recently discussed the issue with the Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade in November 2017. We also raised this at the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of Australia in November 2015.​

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