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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton may have found the message he’s taking to the federal election: stop the “armada of boats”.
It hasn’t been high on the agenda for years, but a couple of weeks ago a boat arriving in far north Western Australia gave him an opportunity to put the issue back on the front page.
Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, fact checks Peter Dutton’s media blitz and his claims about asylum seekers.
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Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe
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