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After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election, Fraser claimed Howard approached him in a corridor, following a cabinet meeting in May 1977 regarding Vietnamese refugees, and said: " We don't want too many of these people.

We're doing this just for show, aren't we?

" The claims were made by Fraser in an interview to mark the release of the 1977 cabinet papers.

Howard, through a spokesman, denied making the comment.