Thinking outside the boxes

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  • Author(s): By:Russell Skelton - Russell Skelton is a contributin
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    Age, The (Melbourne, Australia), September 16, 2011 News First, p. 13 7pp
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    • Abstract:
      The Gillard government has been quietly increasing the number of asylum seekers in community detention. Is this the way of the future? Russell Skelton reports. IT'S a fact seldom referred to in the bitter debate over refugee policy, but some 1200 men, women and children - more than 25 per cent of all the nation's asylum seekers - live in the community as they wait for their claims for refugee status to be processed...