Dateline report: Crunch Time

Dateline reporter David O'Shea visits Indonesia to ask whether people desperate to reach Australia have heard of the 'PNG Solution'.

Dateline report: Crunch TimeDateline report: Crunch Time

Dateline report: Crunch Time

In Australia, with an election upon us, there can be few people unaware of the Government's new policy of resettling any refugees arriving by boat in Papua New Guinea.

 

But is the message getting through to those people desperate to reach Australia?

 

Dateline's David O'Shea has travelled to Indonesia to meet groups of asylum seekers who've already fled Afghanistan, Iran and Myanmar and now want to make Australia home.

 

How does the view look from that end of the asylum debate?

 

David O'Shea tells Ron Sutton the view is, above all, very confused.

 

And David O'Shea's story will on Tuesday night at 9:30 on SBS One.


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