Government spent $78 million transporting asylum seekers last year

The figures for the last financial year highlight the ongoing cost of moving and deporting asylum seekers to and from Australia.

Refugees on Nauru

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Published 11 December 2018 1:16pm
By Stephanie Andary
Presented by Al Bayt Baytak


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