Labor leader Bill Shorten says Tony Abbott’s plans to increase the refugee intake from Syria within the existing overall intake ‘is simply not superior enough’. Labor,he says, ‘is calling for an emergency bipartisan meeting of not just the government and opposition but state leaders, or community representatives and religious organisations.’ Shorten calls for a ‘one-off increase in our humanitarian intake of refugees,from 13750 … for an additional 10000 refugees caught up in a clash not of their making’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com