Notable Australian left Labor Party Committed to increasing funding to UN and Migration Pact If Elected
We still have globalists in government and the left wing labor party is doing its best to push it. This guy shorten is a worm and weasel mixed into one. Abosolute scum. Aussies we need eyes on this guy and the party at all levels. Look at whats going on in victoria with the secret deal to usher in the chinese state through the beltway project and with Huawei taking over police and survailance in Western Australia. Look at their plan to increase taxes through spending and peoples income. Eyes on…
Bill Shorten vows to lift refugee intake, UN funding
Labor leader Bill Shorten has avoided an internal fight over asylum-seeker policy by agreeing to changes that would see Australia gradually expand its annual humanitarian intake to 32,000 people and give the United Nations an extra $500 million to help resettle refugees elsewhere in the region.
Delegates at the ALP National Conference in Adelaide accepted the changes and voted down other measures pushed by the left that included reviewing the cases of 6000 people who have already been denied protection visas under the "fast-track" assessment system.
Mr Shorten said the policy approach adopted by conference was "strong, compassionate and sustainable". It included maintaining support for turning back boats and offshore detention.
Mr Shorten said that if he was elected he would immediately negotiate a deal with New Zealand, which has offered to take asylum seekers off Manus Island and Nauru.
He would also lift Labor's own proposed annual humanitarian intake of 27,000 to 32,000. This would be done by expanding plans to allow 5000 additional asylum seekers into the country so long as they were sponsored by, for example, state or local governments, church or community groups.
6,250 and will rise to 18,750 this financial year.
Labor agreed at its last conference to increase this to 27,000 by 2025. The extra 5000 under the community sponsorship plan would take this total to 32,000 over time.
Mr Shorten also pledged an extra $500 million in funding to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to resettle people in the region and closer to their home countries "to ensure vulnerable people are not exploited by people smugglers to travel by boat".
And Labor would boost the number of Australian Federal Police working in the region to try to break people-smuggling rings.
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