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MP3 Refugee Council Unhappy With Aussie Plans for Off-shore Refugee Detention Centre

MP3, 7m25s, 1.7MB, first broadcast 16 August 2010

Priyaksha Pathmanathan, Executive Member of the Refugee Council of New Zealand, explains her group's opposition to our government's planned involvement in an Australian scheme to detain asylum-seekers in East Timor. The plans look to have fallen through for the moment, but what should NZ's role be in responding to refugee claims?

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