The United Nations says it's profoundly concerned by Australia's plan to ban refugees who arrived by boat from ever returning to Australia.
If enacted, the ban would be backdated to July 2013, targeting about two thousand asylum seekers Australia has detained offshore on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
Ben Robinson Drawbridge has more.
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Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia, addresses the United Nations high-level summit on large movements of refugees and migrants. Photo: UN Photo/JC McIlwaine