Colleagues condemn backbencher’s claims that Abdullah Kurdi sent his family on a boat because he wanted dental treatment and portrayal of people leaving danger-free countries as ‘opportunistic’Waves of people are arriving in Europe for “opportunistic” economic reasons rather than because they horror for their lives,the Liberal backbencher Cory Bernardi has argued.
Speaking on Monday against a Greens motion urging Australia to resettle an extra 20000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees, Bernardi said the country needed an ordered migration system and could not simply open its borders to anyone.
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Source: theguardian.com