Most agree, keeping refugees on Manus and Nauru is cruel: pollster

By Michael Gordon
Updated February 22 2017 - 4:08pm, first published February 21 2017 - 6:19pm
An unidentified Afghan man leans against a chainlink fence of a refugee camp after arriving with other asylum seekers on Nauru.
An unidentified Afghan man leans against a chainlink fence of a refugee camp after arriving with other asylum seekers on Nauru.

Australians overwhelmingly believe keeping asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru indefinitely is cruel, but are evenly split on whether they should be resettled in Australia, a survey has found.