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Wednesday, November 05, 2003

This is the fishing boat that the 14 assylum seekers arrived in.'For those who've come across the seas/We've boundless plains to share'
I think those two lines ñ need to be removed from our national anthem. Why? Yesterday the government excised Melville Island and Bathurst Island (in the Arafura Sea, close to Darwin), along with about 4000 minor islands, from the migration zone, to stop fourteen asylum seekers from Turkey applying for refugee status in Australia.