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Critics claim Ms Gillard's Malaysia Solution is the Pacific Solution in new clothes.
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As boat arrivals grew, Tony Abbott, leader of the Liberal opposition, called for a return to the Pacific Solution.
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''The Howard-era Pacific Solution was deeply unethical and it was arguably illegal.
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The government decided to re-establish offshore processing camps in August, after ending the policy - known as the Pacific Solution - in 2008.
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The opposition wants a return to the controversial Pacific Solution, with the reopening of an Australian-run detention centre on the tiny island on Nauru.
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"Labor will end the Pacific Solution, the processing and detaining of asylum seekers on Pacific islands, because it is costly, unsustainable and wrong as a matter of principle, " she insisted at the time.
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And since this region includes some of the fastest-growing nations, there can be no solution to the challenge of climate change without the cooperation of the Asia Pacific.
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