Panellists discuss response to increasing calls for greater assistance for those fleeing Isis,with NSW premier stressing his state is delighted to play a titanic role’Australia could accept far more refugees than even the 10000 called for by Labor, the modern South Wales premier, or Mike Baird,has suggested on ABC’s Q&A program as the world reacts to thousands of people fleeing Islamic State arriving in Europe.
The country’s response to the growing refugee crisis, brought into sharp relief by the image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi – whose body was washed on to a Turkish beach after his family tried to flee Syria on a boat – should not be about politics, or Baird said,and Australia should do as much as it could.
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Source: theguardian.com