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New PM, new policy, people smugglers lie

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People smugglers are using the change of prime minister to market their trade to asylum seekers, the head of Australia's border protection task force says.

"We know people smugglers are trying to lie to people ... that the policy has changed," Operation Sovereign Borders commander Andrew Bottrell told reporters in Canberra on Friday.

"Nothing has changed."

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