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- Title
- Refugees between pasts and politics: sovereignty and memory in the Tampa crisis
- Author(s)
- Kleist, J. Olaf
- Abstract
- On the morning of 25 August 2001, few Australians had heard of the merchant vessel Tampa. The Norwegian ship had left the port of Fremantle three days earlier and was on its way to Singapore. The next day, the Tampa rescued 439 people from a sinking boat, prompting a major shift in Australian refugee policies, sparking a major political controversy and turning around the ailing fortunes of the governing Liberal-National Coalition ahead of a federal election later that year.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- Does history matter? Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand / Klaus Neumann and Gwenda Tavan (eds.), pp. 81-103
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History); 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
- Keyword(s)
- 21st century history; Australia; Citizenship; Government policy; Howard Government; Immigration; Memory; Migration policy; Refugees; Sovereignty; Tampa crisis
- Publisher
- ANU E-Press
- ISBN
- 9781921536946
- Publisher URL
- http://epress.anu.edu.au/immigration_citation.html
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 ANU E-Press.
- Additional information
- The Friedrich Ebert Foundation supported the author's work with a postgraduate scholarship.
- Peer reviewed
