A plan developed by Tasmanian community leaders and human rights activists would see the island-state become Australia’s asylum seeker processing centre.

The Tasmania Opportunity Leaders Summit in Launceston heard the case for making the state an asylum seeker processing centre from leaders including human rights lawyer and refugee advocate Julian Burnside QC.

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