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Refugees, asylum seekers and advocates have marked five years since the reintroduction of Australia’s mandatory offshore detention policy.

Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani called the milestone “a dark day,” accusing the federal government “of lying, torturing and propaganda”. Human Rights Watch Australia director Elaine Pearson said “Australia has gone from being a country that once welcomed immigrants to a world leader in treating refugees with brazen cruelty” in the five years since then-prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that “any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees”

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