Asylum seekers pour in as others sent to Nauru

By Phillip Coorey, Michael Bachelard
September 11 2012 - 3:00am
Says there are enough temporary facilities on Nauru to send people there by the end of the week ... Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.
Says there are enough temporary facilities on Nauru to send people there by the end of the week ... Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.

THE government will send the first handful of asylum seekers to Nauru this week as boats continued to pour into Australian waters at record levels, threatening to overwhelm any deterrence factor the revived ''Pacific solution'' is designed to create.

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