The Refugee Action Coalition has condemned the deal with New Zealand to take 150 refugees processed in Australia, each year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis deal does nothing to provide security for a greater number of asylum seekers or refugees. Australia can easily resettle 150 a year itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, the Labor government has successfully drawn New Zealand into co-operation with its Pacific Solution meaning New Zealand will be taking 150 fewer people referred to it by the United Nations,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a pointless deal: a regional non-solution. Asylum seekers are still going to have to get on boats and get to Australia before they have any hope of protection.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew Zealand could have greatly increased its refugee intake from its pitifully small 750 and provided resettlement for refugees directly from Indonesia. Instead they are co-operating with Australia\u2019s effort to undermine the Refugee Convention.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Gillard government has not lived up to its promise to take even 400 refugees from Indonesia. Only 180 were resettled last year. And the government is a long way from implementing the Expert Panel recommendation to resettle 3,800 refugees from Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than off-load refugees to another Pacific neighbour, the Gillard government should be upholding its obligation to asylum seekers to protect and process them in Australia,\u201d said Rintoul.<\/p>\n
\u201cFive years after the Rudd Labor government closed Nauru, the government now seems determined to do anything it can to avoid its obligations to refugees. It will do everything but the right thing \u2013 end the misery inflicted on asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru and bring those asylum seekers to Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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