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Former Liberal leader Alexander Downer described the department as "less than the sum of its parts", a "sub...

During her recent visit to Fiji, new Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced that the Australian government would create a Pacific Engagement Visa, providing a pathway to permanent residency for Pacific Islanders and their families.

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By boat, from indonesia, - they would be sent to detention centres, first on shore, . but then under the pacific solution, detention centres - on nauru and papua new guinea. now that did pretty much stop, slow the boat to minimal- numbers, not completely. in 2007, the labor party went| to the election and won saying we are going to unwind thisl inhumane, immoral system. and they did. and the boats came back with ferocity. i and this arguably killed i their re—election chances two elections later. because when the boatsj came back with ferocity, we had this spectacle i of people dying at sea....

Route, 45 people either went missing or died attempting to do so. so you can see statistically why people might carry on coming, although it is very dangerous water, one of the most crowded waterways in the world, actually the risk to life is proportionally relatively low. terrible what happened to that a5, but proportionally it's quite a low figure. australia had exactly this problem of offshoring. it tried to offshore, and australia, it seemed to work. well, if you look to australia, this is playing out perfectly. for the british conservatives here, because this issue - dominated at least th...