SYDNEY: New policies targeting asylum-seekers taking boats to Australia had “broken the back” of the people-smuggling trade, Immigration Minister Tony Burke said on Monday, claiming victory on the sensitive election issue.
Burke said the ruling Labor party’s plan to send all asylum-seekers arriving by boat to Papua New Guinea and Nauru in the Pacific for permanent resettlement—taking life in Australia off the table as an incentive—was working.
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