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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