Australian High Commission
Media Releases
2013
- Australian High Commissioner congratulates Australia Awards recipients
- Commander Operation Sovereign Borders Video Message about combating people smuggling
- Transcript of video message
- Australia launches the New Colombo Plan
- Travel safely with PBS medication this Christmas
- Buidling Pre-Schools in tea plantations
- 2014 Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships announced
- Australia tougher than ever on illegal boat arrivals
- Visiting Prime Minister Tony Abbott meets Sri Lankans receiving a helping hand from Australia
- Foreign Minister meets Sri Lankan Australia Awards recipients in Colombo
- REMAINING SRI LANKAN BOAT ARRIVALS RETURNED TO COLOMBO
- People smuggling cooperation with Sri Lanka
- Operation Sovereign Borders - English, Sinhala, Tamil
- SRI LANKAN BOAT ARRIVALS RETURNED TO COLOMBO
- High Commissioner helps launch disaster risk reduction plans for Ratnapura, Batticaloa, Kalmunai and Balangoda
- Statement on the Maldives
- Statement on 19 October Presidential Elections in the Maldives
- High Commissioner meets Charlton Brown representatives
- Australian High Commissioner launches the second volume of Judge C. G. Weeramantry’s memoirs, “Towards One World: The Australian Years”
- Statement on Presidential Elections in the Maldives
- Sri Lankans sent to Papua New Guinea
- More Iranians return home from Manus Island
- Fifteenth transfer to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- Fourteenth group sent to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- Thirteenth group sent to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- Family groups returning to Sri Lanka
- Twelfth group sent to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- Eleventh group sent to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- More families transferred to Nauru for processing
- Second families transferred to Nauru under the regional settlement arrangement
- Torres Strait arrivals sent to PNG under Regional Settlement Arrangement
- Ninth group sent to PNG under Regional Settlement Arrangement
- First families transferred to Nauru under the regional settlement arrangement
- Eighth group sent to PNG under Regional Settlement Arrangement
- Seventh group sent to PNG under Regional Settlement Arrangement
- Sixth group sent to PNG under Regional Settlement Arrangement
- Fifth group sent to PNG under Regional Settlement Arrangement
- Fourth group sent to PNG
- Third group sent to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- New arrangement with Nauru Government
- Second group sent to PNG under regional settlement arrangement
- First group sent to Manus Island under the regional settlement arrangement
- Massive air lift delivers for Manus Island RPC
- Sri Lankans face return to Colombo or transfer to PNG
- Australia and Papua New Guinea Regional Settlement Arrangement
- A further 15 Sri Lankan irregular maritime arrivals returned
- Transfers of Sri Lankan, Lebanese and Vietnamese continue to Nauru
- Australia and Sri Lanka discuss harmonising laws to combat people smuggling
- Australia-Sri Lanka Workshop for Magistrates on People Smuggling and Mutual Legal Assistance
- Twenty eight Sri Lankans returned to Colombo
- More Sri Lankans returned to Colombo
- More Sri Lankans returned to Colombo
- Australia raises human rights with Sri Lanka
- Minister thanks Sri Lanka for cooperation on combatting people smuggling
- Photos - Hon.Brendan O'Connor MP, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship visit to Sri Lanka
- Transcript of the press conference by Hon. Brendan O'Connor MP, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
- Minister to visit Sri Lanka from May 2-4
- Another Group of Sri Lankans Returned to Colombo
- More than 1000 Sri Lankan irregular maritime arrivals removed
- Another group of Sri Lankans sent home
- Australian High Commission Presents Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia in Colombo
- Sri Lanka Test cricketers join in anti-people smuggling push
- Australia and UNICEF Open New School for Children in Kilinochchi
- ‘Australia Future Unlimited: Education Exhibition 2013’ in Colombo
- Australia and World Vision in AUD 3.8 million partnership for sustainable development
- Australian High Commissioner visits newly-arrived dairy cattle at Bopathalawa and Menikpalama farms
- More Sri Lankans return home from Australia
- Nearly 1000 Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned home
- More Sri Lankans return home from Australia
- More Sri Lankans choose to return home from Nauru
- Group of Sri Lankans sent home