22122016 Refugees 2016
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (right) and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tour the Australian Maritime Border Command Centre in Canberra (AAP) Source: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (right) and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tour the Australian Maritime Border Command Centre in Canberra (AAP)
2016 comes to a close with a cloud of uncertainty over Australia's plans to send some refugees from offshore detention to the United States. It ends a year that brought to light more details of the federal government's secretive asylum regime, as it tried to fend off condemnation at home and abroad.
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