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LATIKA M BOURKE: Alexander Downer’s stark warning Reform’s ‘carbon copy’ of Australia’s turnbacks can’t work
['Latika M Bourke', 'The Nightly']
The Nightly
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Your email address: Email Us Get the Newsletter By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy“Under a Reform government, within a fortnight, there would be no more boats,” Mr Farage said, unveiling his Operation Fortress policy.
Australia would transfer migrants onto unsinkable orange lifeboats and tow them into international waters, leaving them to navigate to Indonesia.
“In 2017, various United Nations committees made rulings against Australia’s foreign processing centres, but no international body has brought prosecutions against Australian politicians.
Mr Farage has been leading in the polls but has suffered a setback in public support following revelations that he accepted £5 million ($9.6m) from an offshore crypto investor.