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Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers
The Albanese government will strike a new funding deal with Papua New Guinea (PNG) to support asylum seekers after the country threatened to send them back to Australia unless a fresh agreement was signed. In December 2021 the Morrison government struck a …