The basic human right of every person to seek asylum from persecution is not diminished by their mode of arrival.
Australia has a curiously contradictory attitude towards migrants: at once welcoming and hostile, depending almost exclusively on mode of arrival.
"Penalising people based on their mode of arrival is clearly in breach of [Australia's] obligations," Graham Thom, of Amnesty International, told ABC television.
On the proposition that all asylum seekers should be processed in Australia regardless of their mode of arrival, 51% were in favour and 49% against.
Unashamedly, Dear Australia seeks to ask our community to look past a "mode of arrival" or a visa category, to see the person beyond.
"He has taken a brave stance against a system that seeks to punish and deter those who seek our protection, making a mockery of Australia's signature on the UN Refugee Convention, which states that seeking asylum is never illegal, regardless of the mode of arrival or country of origin.
Whether the moas, with the other ratites (birds with a flattened breastbone), shared a common ancestor or were polyphyletic (from several ancestral lines that come to resemble each other because of similar environments) is as debatable as their mode of arrival in New Zealand.
Landing after nightfall in a military transport plane, a mode of arrival that American officials hope will soon seem like a relic of a distant era, Mr. Biden came with an agenda that included new areas of cooperation in trade and diplomacy, as well as traditional security concerns.
Patients' age, sex and mode of arrival were recorded by the ED registration desk.
Cases were matched by CTAS category, age, gender, mode of arrival, and home living environment.
