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Politics
Maeve Bannister and Tess Ikonomou

Poll day boat message 'disgrace': Marles

Richard Marles says the decision to go public about an asylum seeker boat was a "desperate act". (AAP)

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has described the decision to go public about an asylum seeker boat on election day as the "final desperate acts of a dying government".

Mr Marles referred to the ABC's report which revealed former prime minister Scott Morrison's office gave a directive to Border Force to release information that a boat from Sri Lanka had been intercepted near Christmas Island last Saturday.

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