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ALP conference day one: Labor says turnbacks needed to prevent drownings

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imageOpposition Leader Bill Shorten opened the 2015 ALP conference with an address. Tracey Nearmy/AAP

The man in the deepest ditch on day one of Labor’s national conference was surely the party’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles.

With party feeling still red hot about the plan to allow a Labor government to turn back asylum seeker boats,...

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