{"id":10410,"date":"2016-08-15T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/?page_id=10410"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:53:33","slug":"is-it-legal-to-turn-back-the-boats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/modules-7-9\/module-nine-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-australia\/is-it-legal-to-turn-back-the-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Legal to &#8216;Turn Back the Boats&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Refugees Activity Four (Extension Activity)<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s policy of &#8216;turning back the boats&#8217; is highly controversial, but is it legal?  The following Factsheet considers the practical and legal issues associated with this policy:\n<\/p>\n<p>Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW, &#8216;Factsheet: Turning Back Boats&#8217;, Available at:\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/Factsheet_Turning_back_boats.pdf\">http:\/\/www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/Factsheet_Turning_back_boats.pdf<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.024 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.026 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 109\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 774\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 2353\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 920\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:170388-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20160815042740 and revision id 1000996\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/global-issues\/modules-7-9\/module-nine-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-australia\/what-is-unhcrs-position-on-turning-back-the-boats\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/global-issues\/modules-7-9\/module-nine-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-australia\/write-a-blog-about-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-australia\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":10396,"menu_order":9800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10411,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10410\/revisions\/10411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}