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Costs revealed for transfer, deportation of asylum seekers

Rohingya refugees leaving Nauru for the US in February 2018

Source: AAP

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Figures obtained by SBS under Freedom of Information laws show the Australian government spent $78 million on the air transfer and deportation of asylum seekers last financial year.

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