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Australia asylum
Australia hails 600 days of no asylum boats
Australia has hailed its controversial policy of turning back asylum-seeker boats after no vessels reached the country in 600 days.
Scores of babies could be sent to island immigration camp after court ruling
Australia’s High Court threw out a challenge to offshore immigration detention camps on Wednesday, clearing the way for the deportation of dozens...
Australia to free some detained asylum-seeking children
A number of asylum-seeking children held in Australian mainland immigration detention centres are to be released, officials said Tuesday, although hundreds...
Australian PM says he won’t bow to ‘moral blackmail’ over asylum seekers
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says asylum seeker policy will not be held “over a moral barrel” by the attempted suicide of people being...
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