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Aus-NZ refugee deal is a bandage on a failed policy. It's time to end offshore processing

  • Written by Natasha Yacoub, International refugee lawyer and scholar, UNSW Sydney

Australia has finally accepted New Zealand’s offer to settle some of the refugees from the offshore processing regime – about nine years after it was first made in 2013.

The NZ deal will provide certainty for 450 people who have been in limbo, many for more than a decade.

But in the March 24 announcement, Home Affairs Minister Karen...

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