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Norfolk as asylum haven?

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Remote Norfolk Island will be as an alternative offshore holding centre for asylum-seekers under a plan that will heighten tensions on the lush Pacific Ocean outcrop. The scheme will be put to Canberras man on Norfolk, former Howard government minister Gary Hardgrave, in a last-ditch by residents to save a way of life that began with the mutiny on the Bounty. R Sathyanathan, a leading broadcaster in Sydney, explains the history of Norfolk Island.


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Remote Norfolk Island will be as an alternative offshore holding centre for asylum-seekers under a plan that will heighten tensions on the lush Pacific Ocean outcrop. The scheme will be put to Canberras man on Norfolk, former Howard government minister Gary Hardgrave, in a last-ditch by residents to save a way of life that began with the mutiny on the Bounty. R Sathyanathan, a leading broadcaster in Sydney, explains the history of Norfolk Island.



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