PNG plan for asylum seekers
On 19 July 2013, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that asylum seekers who successfully enter Australia by boat will no longer have the opportunity to be resettled in Australia. Instead, under a new arrangement signed with Papua New Guinea (‘PNG’), all asylum seekers arriving by boat from the date of the announcement will be transferred to PNG where they will be detained in expanded facilities on Manus Island, will undergo refugee status determinations by PNG officials under PNG law, and will be resettled in PNG if they are found to be refugees.