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Labor under fire after asylum seekers sent to Nauru
Australia has sent a boat full of asylum seekers to offshore detention in Nauru for the first time in nine years.
After the revelation at a Senate estimates hearing on Monday, the Labor government was accused of lacking transparency and failing to keep Australia’s borders safe.
- Alex Mitchell and Dominic Giannini
- The NewDaily
Home Affairs department officials said on Monday 13 people remained on Nauru as of September after a boat carrying 11 people was intercepted the same month.
They declined to comment on “on-water matters” and would not say where the asylum seekers were intercepted, where they had come from, or if there were women and children among them.
The lack of…