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Where now for the asylum seekers who come by boat?

08.22.2019 - By ABC listenPlay

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Since 2013 all asylum seekers who arrive by boat have been diverted to offshore detention and processing. Successive Australian governments say they'll never be re-settled in Australia. About nine hundred asylum seekers remain on Manus Island and Nauru. What is their future and the future of our refugee policy?

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