Despite a softening of rhetoric on Wednesday morning,the new PM was later at pains to hose down any prospect of changes to the hardline border policyMalcolm Turnbull started the day promising to pay “close attention” to “valid questions” about the plight of refugees and asylum seekers in Australian-run detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru but ended it insisting they would “never” resettle in Australia.
Asked about the more than 1500 people in detention on Nauru and Manus with no clear prospect of resettlement in an interview with Sky Wednesday morning the new prime minister said : “I hold ... concerns about the situation of people on Manus and Nauru ... This is an area that clearly is one that is controversial, that is a challenging one, or it is certainly one that close attention is being paid to … I thank you for raising it,it is valid to raise it … but we are not going to perform policy changes on the run.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com