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    A high-profile opposition lawmaker, Wilson Tuckey, said the numbers of asylum seekers arriving off the north coast could be providing an ideal screen for militants to stage attacks in Australia, a close US ally with combat forces in Afghanistan. "If you wanted to get into Australia and you have bad intentions what do you do? ... You go on a system where nobody brings their papers, you have no identity, you have no address." With elections a year away and the government seemingly unassailable in polls, Rudd accused rivals of trying to re-stoke the asylum debate. Full Article at Shanghai Daily
    If you wanted to get into Australia and you have bad intentions what do you do? ... You go on a system where nobody brings their papers, you have no identity, you have no address.
    – Wilson Tuckey SOURCE: Shanghai Daily 1 month ago
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Australia PM furious over asylum militant claim
  1. To go out there and to smear asylum seekers in the way in which Mr Tuckey has done I say again is divisive, I think is disgusting
    Kevin Rudd – Kevin Rudd SOURCE: Shanghai Daily 1 month ago

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