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Dying for a Better Life

Part of The Big Stories: 2015. Asylum seekers dreaming of a new life in Australia are being sent to detention camps in Papua New Guinea. Fariba Sahraei investigates the human cost.

Part of The Big Stories: 2015. Australia has shut the door on asylum seekers arriving by boat and is sending them to detention camps on remote Pacific islands. Even if their asylum applications are successful, they will never be allowed to live in Australia but will be resettled instead in Papua New Guinea. Reporter Fariba Sahraei travels to the region to investigate conditions inside one camp and to look at the human cost of Australia's controversial re-settlement policy.

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Sun 3 Jan 2016 20:10GMT

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