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Pressure is building on the Australian Government to release asylum seekers from detention more quickly.
It follows the apparent suicide of a Sri Lankan man in an immigration detention centre in Sydney.
The 27-year-old Tamil had been accepted as a refugee but remained in detention waiting for final clearance from Australia’s domestic security agency, ASIO.
Presenter: Fran Kelly
Speaker: Chris Bowen, Australian Immigration Minister
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