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‘Criminal intelligence fusion centre’
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor said part of the Government’s new approach to combating people smugglers would be the creation of a so-called “criminal intelligence fusion centre”.
“Stronger regulation is needed to ensure more reliable financial intelligence,” he said.
“We need to ensure we change Austrac’s rules.
“The Government also proposes a more comprehensive regulatory regime for remittance dealers to be implemented following consultation with the financial services sector.”
Mr O’Connor said the new measures built on the legislation already before the Prada Handbags arliament. Under the laws, people found to provide material support to people smuggling will be subject to 10 years imprisonment, and fines of up to $110,000.
“I urge the Opposition to pass this bill as soon as the Senate resumes in May,” he said.
Senator Evans said he did not expect the suspension would immediately stem the number of boat arrivals.
“We still expect boats to arrive,” he said, adding the Government was hopeful that “over time” it would have an impact on people-smuggling operations.
“The message is the circumstances in Australia have changed and that increasingly persons from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are being refused asylum,” he said.
The announcement came shortly after the Government revealed the interception of a boat, carrying 70 asylum seekers, near Christmas Island last night. The passengers were rescued from their floundering vessel after it issued a distress call, saying its engine had failed.
It was the 38th boat to arrive in Australian waters this year.
The new measures also follow the concerns of a United Nations official who said governments needed new solutions to deal with “out of control” people smuggling as thousands of asylum seekers try to reach Australia via Indonesia.
Woods finished Thursday 4-under par, his best opening round score at the Masters, according to the Press Association. The 50-year-old Couples sat atop a crowded and veteran field; 11 players were within two strokes of each other at the top, including 60-year-old Tom Watson, who was just a stroke behind Couples.
But almost all attention was cast on world No. 1 Woods, who returned to the game after taking a break last November, when revelations of extramarital affairs were made public.
He spent 45 days at a rehabilitation center for what the golfer called “personal” issues before announcing he was ending his self-enforced exile from the game ahead of the year’s opening major tournament.10luoyuejun0409