Barnaby Joyce downplays comments linking increase in asylum seekers to halt in live cattle trade

By Fergus Hunter
Updated May 26 2016 - 9:49am, first published 8:53am

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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has sought to clarify comments he made which appeared to suggest that Indonesia unleashed asylum seekers in boats on Australia as punishment for Labor's 2011 suspension of the live cattle trade.

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