As predicted by this blog, The Age reports "Australia will try to return to Papua New Guinea three refugees found in the Torres Strait.
A man, woman and their son, aged nine, arrived by boat on Saibai Island on Sunday night, and have told immigration officials they are from Afghanistan.
But a spokeswoman for the immigration department said Australia would look to return the family to PNG because that was where they had come from."
The Howard government will not meet its refugee obligations, nor will it change course from a strategy of supporting the status quo in West Papua, whereby Indonesia exploits West Papuan resources and abuses Papuans who openly challenge its right to do so.
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