Australia under fire over 'shameful' plan to send refugees abroad
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd: announces draconian policy
Kathy Marks
The Australian prime minister yesterday unveiled the most draconian refugee policy in the country's history, announcing that asylum-seekers who arrive by boat will be resettled not in Australia but in neighbouring Papua New Guinea, a nation riddled with crime, poverty and corruption.
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