Kevin Rudd has finally been forced to acknowledge that there is a link between the protection of our borders and the integrity of our orderly migration program. Whether his PNG solution to boat arrivals will work remains to be seen.
The orderliness of our migration experience is often overlooked. We are told we are all migrants or descendants of migrants.
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