In an opinion piece in The Conversation Dr Sara Davies examines the government’s view that a large number of people arriving by boat are economic migrants purporting to be refugees. The Conversation is fact checking political statements during the federal election. For the full article click here.
FactCheck: are asylum seekers really economic migrants?
20 August 2013
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