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Australia denies refugee policy failure

Australia wants to discourage people like these would-be migrants from Afghanistan and Iran, who were rescued when a boat carrying about 250 people began to sink off Java. Photo: EPA

Australia on Thursday denied its policies to combat people-smuggling had failed as a decision to release asylum-seekers into the community with little help or support was blasted as “a new low”.

Canberra is struggling with a record influx of asylum-seekers that is overwhelming its offshore camps.