SYDNEY: Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was “very satisfied” as Australia marked six months since the last asylum-seeker boat arrival, but warned it was not yet “mission accomplished”.
Abbott’s conservative government came into power in September vowing to stop the flood of asylum-seekers arriving on rickety boats from its South-East Asian neighbours, with hundreds of people dying en route.
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