PNG threatens to send refugees back to Australia unless it keeps funding humanitarian program
by Rebecca Kuku, Ben Doherty and Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#6FCFT)
Exclusive: Papua New Guinea official accuses Australia of abandoning 70 men but government maintains it has no responsibility for them
Refugees exiled to Papua New Guinea a decade ago will be sent back to Australia if the Australian government fails to continue funding PNG's humanitarian program, Port Moresby's most senior migration official has warned.
PNG's chief migration officer, Stanis Hulahau, said the refugees had been abandoned by Australia and the PNG businesses that had been housing and caring for the men were owed tens of millions of dollars.
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