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...scientific dream. The epaulette shark-actually a shy, 1-m-long bottom-feeder-is one of more than 50 species of fish, shrimp and coral previously unknown to science that researchers from the environmental NGO Conservation International (CI) reported discovering off the Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Papua province. Last year, a CI team uncovered dozens of new bird and plant species in Papua's Foja Mountains. This time, the group's study of the region's equally rich waters left its marine biologists "almost giddy," says expedition leader Mark Erdmann. "It's common enough...
...again. In New York last week to attend the gathering of the U.N. General Assembly, Honiara's delegation sought out friends and did some business: it announced a new health initiative with Cuba, did some lobbying for Taiwan, and found new personnel for its commission of inquiry, courtesy of Papua New Guinea...
...PAPUA, an Indonesian province, has had a simmering separatist movement for 30 years. But its model, East Timor, has struggled since gaining sovereignty...
...credible asylum system, in the absence of anything approximating a mass influx, decides to transfer elsewhere the responsibility to handle claims made actually on the territory of the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy shift has brought accusations of appeasement. But it's also raised questions about Australia's commitment to the U.N.'s 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees...
...Also in doubt, says Foster, is Article 33, under which signatories agree not to return "in any manner whatsoever" refugees to a situation of persecution. Australia and Indonesia are discussing joint naval patrols, and a spokesman for Defence Minister Brendan Nelson says the possibility of turning boats from Papua back to Indonesia is under consideration. Such a move would breach Article 33, says Foster - as would setting up an offshore processing system inferior to Australia's, which could result in flawed decisions and genuine refugees being repatriated to life-threatening situations. Despite criticism that the Convention is ill equipped...