{"id":6517,"date":"2013-08-05T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2013-08-07T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:49:56","slug":"boat-people-australia-towards-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=6517","title":{"rendered":"Boat people &#038; Australia: towards a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Kevin Peoples<\/h1>\n<h4>Refugee Advocate 2002-2013.<\/h4>\n<h2><strong>A regional plan for asylum seekers seeking protection in Australia.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"christmas island detention centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/christmas-island.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6526\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"christmas island\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/christmas-island-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/christmas-island-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/christmas-island-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/christmas-island-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/christmas-island-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>After more than a decade of involvement in advocacy for asylum seekers, Kevin Peoples proposes a Regional Plan for Asylum Seekers that will stop the loss of life at sea by setting up a reception centre in Indonesia, in collaboration with the UNHCR, and funded by Australia. He argues that Australia should prioritise refugees from this region, and enter into agreements with neighbouring countries that Australia would receive 25,000 refugees a year, and fly them to Australia for settlement.<br \/>\nTo read Kevin Peoples&#8217; proposal in full, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kpeoples-boat-people-aug13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre> Photo <em>Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre<\/em> by DIAC Images, flickr cc.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Peoples Refugee Advocate 2002-2013. A regional plan for asylum seekers seeking protection in Australia. After more than a decade of involvement in advocacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[41,36,46,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}