Asylum Detainees

Asylum protest

Hundreds more asylum seekers will be deported from Manus Island. Source: AAP

A festering wound that kills people. That's how Labor MP Melissa Parke has described Australia's asylum seeker policy which sees refugees who arrive by boat sent to offshore processing centres.


As a result of the asylum policy, one man died after being flown to Australia for medical treatment while a woman from Somalia remains in a critical condition.


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