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The Nauru deal: don’t say we didn’t warn ya

2 February 2017

10:26 PM

2 February 2017

10:26 PM

Back in November, just after the presidential election, Neil Brown wrote a cracker of a column for the Speccie. It began:

Of all the hare-brained ideas that governments come up with, the deal with the US to take refugees from Manus Island and Nauru must surely take the prize …

And if that wasn’t good enough, it finished with:

If President Trump goes along with it…

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