Asylum seeker policy is complex.
The Cambodia Daily has quoted an official as saying the ethnic Rohingya man from Myanmar has volunteered to go.
In the message obtained by Guardian Australia Immigration Minister Peter Dutton urges asylum seekers to take an offer to resettle in Cambodia.
The picture described contrasts with Australia's warnings for tourists interested in visiting Cambodia, which caution that opportunistic crime, including assaults, armed robberies, extortion and banditry, is "common".
But the refugees I met in November who had gone to Cambodia seeking asylum told a different story – of discrimination that makes jobs hard to get, of language barriers, and low wages that don't even cover subsistence costs.
Refugees on Nauru already have a difficult life with squalid conditions and abuses in detention, and limited job prospects and a lack of safety for those released into the community.
The video follows a five-page letter his department began handing out to the refugees earlier this month telling them about the assistance they could expect as soon as they land in Phnom Penh.
Those who wish to "take advantage" of the government offer should call the "Cambodia settlement hotline on 558 6049, " Dutton states.
Accommodation in Nauru. Photo: Photos supplied.
Last week, former Supreme Court judge Charles Stephens told a Senate Committee the government's proposed change to the Migration Act would effectively allow detention centre guards to inflict deadly violence on inmates without legal recourse. "Once we have checked his background and his health…and once we see that he has not committed any crimes and does not use drugs…then we will inform him that he can come to live in our country".
The general said he did not know when the man would arrive in Cambodia but said he would not be coming with the delegation, which left for Nauru on Sunday and is expected back this week or next.
Refugee advocates fear the Abbott government is trying to fast-track the refugee process and exchange claim approval for Cambodian resettlement. Photo: Photos supplied.
They will be returned to Nauru once the father has recovered. It said the country's politicians were "putting the short-term political interests of the Australian government ahead of the protection of some of the world's most vulnerable people".
Asylum-seekers in Nauru, awaiting resettlement.
He said travel documents were being arranged and preparations in Cambodia were continuing.
This means that refugee boats are usually intercepted at sea in advance far off the Australian shore, and forced to turn back.An incident in July, 2014 caused a great stir: The Australian Coast Guard stopped a vessel on high seas hundreds of kilometers away from the Australian coast.
As for protecting freedom of speech, that wasn't the experience of 10 women whose trial I observed there last November.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has rejected a Greens accusation he is torturing asylum seekers.
"We want to demonstrate that this can work, " he said.
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