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Bianca Hall is immigration correspondent based in Canberra.

Tears swiftly turned to acrimony in Parliament last year, as MPs failed to agree on measures that could stop lives being lost at sea.

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The asylum seeker battle is not over yet

Bianca Hall In 2012, asylum politics were notoriously fraught for Labor. So will this year, an election year, see a return to the battlelines?

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