Past Programs
Ethics - 2007
Offshore camps...a price too high?
25/08/2007
August 26 marks the sixth anniversary of the so-called Tampa Affair. It was on that day in 2001 that a Norwegian container ship, the MV Tampa, rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking fishing boat just outside Australian waters.
Asylum seekers were then transported to hastily built offshore processing camps on Nauru and Manus Island.
Six years later the camp on Nauru remains operational and currently holds around 90 people.
But what's the cost of keeping offshore camps open?
Sir Bernard Crick Read Transcript
28/04/2007
Last year the Australian government proposed a citizenship test for migrants that would test English skills and knowledge of Australian history and 'values'.
Some countries already have a citizenship test, including the United Kingdom; and the man who advised the British government on the test was Sir Bernard Crick.
Sir Bernard has been a long-standing protagonist for multiculturalism and what he calls 'active citizenship'.
