NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd’s ‘Indonesia solution’ has been in place since 2007*

Despite Labor’s trenchant attacks on the Howard Government’s Pacific Solution – under which asylum-seekers were processed offshore – it has now emerged that Kevin Rudd’s Indonesia solution has been in process since the 2007 election.Map showing Tanjung Pinang.The detention centre in which the Rudd Labor Government wanted to place the 78 asylum-seekers picked up by the Customs vessel Oceanic Viking is near the town of Tanjung Pinang, on the Indonesian island of Bintan.The West Australian revealed…

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