Families to be sent to Nauru soon

By Bianca Hall
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:36pm, first published August 15 2013 - 3:00am

Australia will send asylum seeker families to the tiny island nation of Nauru within weeks, Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced, as disquiet grows in Labor ranks over the party's new asylum seeker policy.

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