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441Aliens — Refugees — United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Exclusion from definition of refugee — Article 1F(b) — Interpretation — Whether there were serious reasons for considering that the appellant committed a serious non-political crime — Whether there was a rational foundation for the inference that the appellant committed a serious non-political crime — Whether evidence was logically probative of serious reasons for considering that the appellant committed a serious non-political crime — The law of Australia

While the issue of refugees and asylum-seekers has preoccupied many European countries, until the November 2001 federal election Australia had largely been immune from the problem. In the election, border protection - combining the Tampa crisis with the 'war against terrorism' - were central electoral issues. Analysis of the 2001 Australian Election Study shows that border protection cost Labor the election. Labor suffered defections to the Democrats and Greens over its position on refugees and asylum-seekers, and defections to the Coalition on terrorism. Negative public attitudes towards asylum-seekers rested on opposition to immigration, but also on a particular dislike of arrivals from the Middle East. By contrast, support for the 'war on terrorism' was based mainly on notions of fairness and democracy. Of the two border protection issues - asylum-seekers and terrorism - terrorism was the more important of the two in shaping the election outcome. If 11 September had occurred but the Tampa crisis had not, the Coalition would in all probability still have won the election.

While the issue of refugees and asylum-seekers has preoccupied many European countries, until the November 2001 federal election Australia had largely been immune from the problem. In the election, border protection - combining the Tampa crisis with the 'war against terrorism' - were central electoral issues. Analysis of the 2001 Australian Election Study shows that border protection cost Labor the election. Labor suffered defections to the Democrats and Greens over its position on refugees and asylum-seekers, and defections to the Coalition on terrorism. Negative public attitudes towards asylum-seekers rested on opposition to immigration, but also on a particular dislike of arrivals from the Middle East. By contrast, support for the 'war on terrorism' was based mainly on notions of fairness and democracy. Of the two border protection issues - asylum-seekers and terrorism - terrorism was the more important of the two in shaping the election outcome. If 11 September had occurred but the Tampa crisis had not, the Coalition would in all probability still have won the election.

Core values can provide important strategic functions in organizations. They can help to unify members around common goals, they can help to ensure culture evolves in a desirable manner, and they can provide guidance to individuals in the absence of input from leadership. For government organizations, such statements provide citizens and voters with information about how the agency behaves. The core values of the U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) patrol are vigilance, service to country, and integrity. In this paper, I compare these values to policies such as invasive border searches, family separations, substandard conditions at detention centers, and failure to hold agents accountable for misconduct, among others. I find that such policies routinely and egregiously violate these core values. I offer several avenues for CBP leadership and for agents to pursue in order to resolve these problems.