Outcry after government announces four-month deadline for maritime asylum seeker applications

AAP

AAP Source: AAP

Asylum seekers have been given four months to lodge a claim or risk being deported from Australia. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says what he's deemed "fake refugees" are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in welfare payments.



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