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07 | Does Australia’s asylum seeker policy actually work?
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:22:00
Publish Date: 2020-12-17 08:44:14
Description: Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policy has two clear objectives: To punish those who arrived by boat and to act as a deterrent for those considering coming to Australia by boat.

With Operation Sovereign borders, the Australian government launched an outright war on asylum seekers back in 2013 - condemning those seeking safety to mandatory detention and temporary protection. And now, all these years after the policies were implemented, we need to ask, have they actually worked?

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