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When a boat carrying Chinese men arrived in Western Australia last month it was unusual.
Not only because it’s rare for boats to make it to the mainland but those on board are almost never from China.
So why are Chinese nationals so desperate to get to Australia that they pay people smugglers?
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Wing Kuang, ABC reporter