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UK moves to copy Australia's cruel asylum-seeker policy – and it will have the same heavy human toll

By Michelle Foster, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
Katie Robertson, Director - Stateless Legal Clinic, The University of Melbourne

The Australian experience of deterring and punishing asylum seekers who arrive by boat should serve as a warning rather than a blueprint for the UK.

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