Australia denies refugee policy failure
- Published: 22 Nov 2012 at 10.47
- Online news: Asia
Australia Thursday denied its policies to combat people-smuggling have failed as a decision to release asylum-seekers into the community with little help or support was blasted as "a new low".
Asylum seekers sit on top of a building at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre in 2011. Australia has denied its policies to combat people-smuggling have failed as a decision to release asylum-seekers into the community with little help or support was blasted as "a new low".
Canberra is struggling with a record influx of asylum-seekers that is overwhelming its offshore camps.
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