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NewsMail Morning Edition Sun 21 Jul, 2013 Top Stories More Top Stories » Asylum seeker group won't travel to Australia after PNG deal By Indonesia correspondent George Roberts, wires A group of Afghan asylum seekers in Indonesia say they will no longer travel to Australia by boat after discovering they would be resettled in Papua New Guinea. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced on Friday that asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat will be processed in PNG and resettled there if they are found to be refugees. Mr Rudd says the deal is aimed at stopping "the scourge of people smuggling". Upon hearing the news, the group of Afghan Hazaras waiting in Indonesia's Puncak area said they would not make the journey to Australia, but said Australia should fund the UNHCR to help process their claims. 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