Sentence examples for pacific solution from inspiring English sources
A policy instituted in 2001 by John Howard's administration and extended until 2008, known as the "Pacific Solution," diverted asylum seekers to Pacific Island states including Nauru and Papua New Guinea for offshore processing.
Tony Abbott pledged to "stop the boats" by reinstating the so-called Pacific Solution, detaining asylum seekers on the Pacific Island of Nauru.
Howard followed this move with the border protection bill, setting out his "Pacific Solution" whereby refugees would be incarcerated in Pacific island microstates, removed from the public gaze and legal rights.
He hailed this as a "Pacific Solution".
He also differentiates the "Malaysia Solution" from the "Pacific Solution".
The Pacific Solution was abolished under Kevin Rudd's first administration.
When Labor revived the "Pacific solution" in 2012, pregnant women were not sent to Nauru.
Australia asked Nauru, a former protectorate, to accept the asylum seekers, triggering the "Pacific Solution".
The Pacific Solution was softened in 2005 after a revolt from four Liberal party backbenchers.
Over several days of talks, a new Australian policy was born: the "Pacific solution".
That was the establishment of "offshore detention" camps on Nauru and on Papua New Guinea, the so-called Pacific solution.
