SYDNEY: Australian refugee groups Tuesday demanded the government provide answers about a boatload of asylum-seekers thought to be from Vietnam seen off the country’s west coast.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose hard-line policies have stemmed the flow of asylum-seekers making the risky journey to Australia on boats—including by turning them around—refused to discuss the vessel.

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