Australian PM Hopes to Revive Immigration Deal With Malaysia

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gilard on Monday said the government would again attempt to amend the country’s migration laws to permit sending asylum seekers to Malaysia, after the policy was ruled against by the high court last month.

Former refugees and their children from Myanmar who had settled in Malaysia chat in their house in Kuala Lumpur on August 31, 2011. Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images