Refugee who met his wife on Manus Island pleads to stay

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Alex Harun Rashid and his family, partner Molly Noan and children Mohammed and Almiera.
Alex Harun Rashid and his family, partner Molly Noan and children Mohammed and Almiera. Source: SBS

Not all of the refugees living on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island want to leave - a small number have settled there and one of them is pleading with the government to give him citizenship to stay with his young family.

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Not all of the refugees living on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island want to leave - a small number have settled there and one of them is pleading with the government to give him citizenship to stay with his young family.

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