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Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 16 June 2009, 6082 (Brendan O'Connor, Minister for Home Affairs) <http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F2009-06-16%2F0012%22>. In July 2012, a DFAT official said that AFP officer in Colombo works to build the capacity of the coast guard and navy: Ben Doherty, Australia Caught in Sri Lanka Refugee Crossfire', Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 25 July 2012, <http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/australia-caught-in-sri-lanka-refugee-crossfre-20120724-22nkc.html>.

Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Parliament of Australia, Answer to Questions on Notice No 65, 19 January 2010; Australian Federal Police, Annual Report 2009–2010, September 2010, <http://www.afp.gov.au/media-centre/publications/annual-reports/∼/media/afp/html/afp-annual-report-2009-2010.ashx>; Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Parliament of Australia, 2012–13 Estimates (16 October 2012) 51–3.

Prime Minister of Australia, Press Conference, (Media release, 15 November 2013) <http://www.pm.gov.au/media/2013-11-15/press-conference>.

Prime Minister of Australia, Press Conference, Colombo Sri Lanka, (Media release, 17 November 2013) <http://www.pm.gov.au/media/2013-11-17/press-conference-colombo-sri-lanka>.

Jayasuriya Dinuk McAuliffe Marie ‘Placing Recent Sri Lankan Maritime Arrivals in a Broader Migration Context’ Irregular Migration Research Program Occasional Paper Series Department of Immigration and Border Protection, October 2013.

UN Web TV Sri Lanka Review – 14th session of UPR: Australian statement 1 November 2012 <http://webtv.un.org/meetingsevents/human-rights-council/universalperiodic-review/watch/sri-lanka-review-14th-session-of-universal-periodicreview/1940915085001>.

Human Rights Committee General Comment 31 Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.13, 26 May 2004, para 3. Note, General Comments of the Human Rights Committee are not binding, but are considered highly authoritative interpretations of the ICCPR.

Committee Against Torture, General Comment No 2: Implementation of Article 2 by States Parties, UN GAOR, Comm Against Torture, 16, UN Doc CAT/C/GC/2 (2008); see De Schutter Olivier , Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Human Rights Quarterly 34 (2012) 1084–169.

UNHCR, Advisory Opinion on the Extraterritorial Application of Non-refoulement Obligations, 26 January 2007, para 24 <http://www.refworld.org/pdfd/45f17a1a4.pdf>. Note that the US Supreme Court took a very restrictive view of extra-territorial reach of the Convention in Sale v Haitian Centers Council, Inc 509 US 155 (1993) but that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights agreed with UNHCR's view in its consideration of the Sale matter in Haitian Centre for Rights Human v United States Case 10.675, Report No 51/96, Inter-Am.C.H.R., OEA/Ser.L/V/II.95 Doc 7 rev at 550 (1997), para 157.

Mohammad Munaf v Romania, CCPR/C/96/D/1539/2006, UN Human Rights Committee, 21 August 2009, 14.2.

Lopez Burgoz v Uruguay, Communication N. R 12/52 (6 June 1979), para 10.3

UNHCR's submissions in R v Immigration Officer at Prague Airport, ex parte European Roma Rights Centre [2004] UKHL 55, [2005] 2 AC 1, available as UNHCR, ‘Written Case’ (20005) 17 International Journal of Refugee Law 427.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 12(2).

ABC Radio, Abbott Faces Questions over Comments in Sri Lanka', The World Today, 18 November 2013 (Louise Yaxley) <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-18/abbott-faces-questions-over-comments-in-sri-lanka/5099522>.