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They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English. These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that. For many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare and the rest of it so there would be huge cost and there's no sense in sugar-coating that, that's the scenario.

— Peter Dutton

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I do think on the information that I’ve seen, people do need help, and they need help from a civilized country like ours.

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