1. The Government of Malaysia will accept up to an agreed maximum of eight hundred (800) Transferees. The Participants understand that the agreed number of transfers may occur prior to any resettlement pursuant to Clause 5.
2. The Government of Australia will resettle four thousand (4,000) persons over four (4) years as referred to in Clause 5 commencing from the date of this Arrangement at a rate of approximately one thousand (1,000) per year, (although recognizing that less may be settled in the first year and any shortfall will be taken up in subsequent years);
3. This number of persons will be resettled by Australia even if the Government of Australia does not seek to transfer the total eight hundred (800) Transferees to Malaysia. "
What a lousy deal for Australia. If Gillard and Bowen were my lawyers (representatives) I would sack them immediately...:(
