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How can we stop people putting themselves in peril? AAP/Josh Jerga

Five ways to prevent more asylum seeker tragedies

By Andrew Markus, Monash University; Anthony Billingsley, University of New South Wales; James Jupp, Australian National University; Kate Gauthier, Australian National University, and Robert Manne, La Trobe University

Last weekend, an overcrowded fishing boat sank off the coast of Indonesia with more than 200 asylum seekers on board. In Australia, the political blame game started soon after with both sides trying to…