SBS Japanese Newsflash Monday 19 August

Refugee rights campaigners have presented a petition, calling for the evacuation of 140 people in offshore detention. It follows the introduction of a bill today by independent MP Kylea Tink, to limit the detention of asylum seekers to 90 days and ban the detention of children.

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