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Vic school defends asylum-seeker students

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Paul Dingle Source: SBS

A Victorian school principal says the prime minister must not send the asylum-seeker children at his school back to Nauru. Three students at a suburban Melbourne high school are among 267 asylum seekers brought to Australia temporarily, who possibly face being returned to immigration detention in the Pacific island nation. Other teachers have joined calls to let the children and their families stay.


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A Victorian school principal says the prime minister must not send the asylum-seeker children at his school back to Nauru. Three students at a suburban Melbourne high school are among 267 asylum seekers brought to Australia temporarily, who possibly face being returned to immigration detention in the Pacific island nation. Other teachers have joined calls to let the children and their families stay.



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