Leaders of East Timor and of the East Timorese community in Australia have rejected Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s planned asylum-processing centre in East Timor. The plan emerged from informal discussions between Ms Gillard and East Timor’s President, José Ramos Horta, during his recent visit to Australia.Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor, Mario Carrascalao, told Paul Toohey, of Melbourne’s Herald Sun, that there was no chance that a processing centre for asylum-seekers would be built in his…
