Fed: Labor promises green card in new refugee policy =2
Mr Crean said a Labor government would also introduce harsher penalties to smash peoplesmuggling rings, improve airport security and treat asylum seekers who arrived by airthe same way as those who arrived by sea.
Although mandatory detention would continue, Labor would close the Woomera detentioncentre and stop exporting asylum seekers to Australia's Pacific neighbours.
He said national security was Labor's top priority, but there also was a need to treatasylum seekers more decently.
"The underpinning objective in terms of this policy is to ensure that they're (asylumseekers) treated decently, that we do the right thing," he said.
"Doing the right thing means securing our borders and treating them decently."
AAP kmh/sw/apm/bwl
KEYWORD: DETENTION LABOR 2 CANBERRA
No comments:
Post a Comment