refugee

Last week Villawood detention centre erupted with detainees protesting and starting a fire which ripped through buildings.
Federal Immigration minister Chris Bowen says those in the roits will not have their claims accepted. 
 
Panorama's Nat Tencic reports.  

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Gillard and Abbott are hard at it, lobbying their asylum-seeker policies as the issue heats up ahead of the federal election. Panorama breaks it down.

Does the language used by government and opposition signal a return to the hardline border protection of the Howard years?

Reporters Hayley Crane, Nick Toscano and Callum Moore.

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