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Call goes out for asylum policy based on 'better angels of our nature' |
| 22 August 2011 |
 Media coverage - The Age, 22 August 2011Prominent business and union leaders have endorsed a new strategy on asylum seekers that would have mandatory detention phased out within two years and Australia's intake of refugees significantly increased over five years, The Age reports today. Heather Ridout, Michael Chaney and Janet Holmes a Court, along with the ACTU president, Ged Kearney, are among more than 30 well-known Australians to back the strategy. The release of 'A New Approach, Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers' today will coincide with the start of a full High Court hearing of a legal challenge to the Gillard government's controversial "people swap" agreement with Malaysia. Published by the Centre for Policy Development, it argues policy should be appeal to the "better angels of our nature - not on half-truths masked as fact, or political cowardice". The policy opposes offshore processing but concedes the Malaysia agreement "can become a catalyst to start the process of building a durable protection system in the region and delivering protection dividends for all asylum seekers". Last week Baptcare and Mission Australia called for unaccompanied child asylum seekers to be allowed to stay in the country. Read more: |
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