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"Government wins Tampa
appeal"
Monday
18th September 2001
The federal government scored a major legal victory with the Full Bench of the Federal Court ruling that the asylum seekers rescued by the Norwegian ship Tampa could be landed at Nauru.
In a majority decision, the three-member bench upheld the government's right to exercise its executive powers and overturned an earlier ruling that the 433 asylum seekers be returned to Australia.
In that case, Justice Tony North ruled that the government had illegally detained the mainly Afghani group when it sent armed SAS troops onto the Tampa as it lay in Australian waters off Christmas Island."
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