Tony Abbott gives 'two-fingered salute' to UN censure over refugee detention

By Daniel Flitton
Updated March 12 2015 - 4:08pm, first published March 11 2015 - 6:31pm
The Prime Minister decried being "lectured" by the UN over a finding on asylum seeker detention.  Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
The Prime Minister decried being "lectured" by the UN over a finding on asylum seeker detention. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

A scathing United Nations ruling against Australia's "cruel and degrading" practice of locking up refugees indefinitely on the basis of secret ASIO assessments has been brushed aside by Tony Abbott's government.

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