Spotlight shifts from ‘boat people’ to record numbers of ‘airplane people’

NEWS: The government may have proudly ‘stopped the boats’, but more and more asylum seekers are arriving by plane.

ผู้ขอลี้ภัยที่เดินทางมาทางเครื่องบินพุ่งสูงเป็นประวัติกาล (AAP)

ผู้ขอลี้ภัยที่เดินทางมาทางเครื่องบินพุ่งสูงเป็นประวัติกาล Source: AAP

Now the Opposition wants to shift the political spotlight from “boat people” to these record numbers of “airplane people”.

The newly-appointed home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally accused Peter Dutton of losing control of Australia’s air borders.

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By Rosemary Bolger

Presented by Parisuth Sodsai

Source: SBS News



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