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The Turnbull government has announced a deal that will see the remaining refugees held in offshore processing centres offered resettlement in the United States.
Speaking at a press conference this morning with Immigration and Border Protection minister Peter Dutton, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the deal is a “one-off agreement” that will only be available to people currently in the off-shore centres. [Read more…]
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has defended and promoted Australia’s refugee policy, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
Turnbull addressed the UN at 8pm local time.
Transcript of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL: Secretary-General, Mr President, Your Excellencies.
The tenor of our times is change.
Accelerating with a pace and scale unprecedented in all of human history. [Read more…]
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s speech to CEDA today was interrupted by a group of refugee protesters.
Turnbull was addressing the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, in Melbourne, on economic policy. The female protesters gained entry to the event by posing as members of the press. About ten minutes into the speech, they began yelling and waving banners that called for the closing of offshore refugee detention camps. One woman stood on the stage near Turnbull with a poster that read: “FFS Close the Bloody Camps”. The protesters were quickly dispersed and evicted from the event.
Turnbull’s speech contained little new. It centred on the government’s commitment to Budget repair and its election campaign themes of innovation and science, investment in the defence industry, trade agreements and taxation.
The Prime Minister said: “In the upcoming sittings, we will introduce an Omnibus Bill that puts together all the Government’s savings measures that we understand from the election campaign the Labor Party is prepared to support.” [Read more…]
The Liberal Party has maintained its focus on boats and border protection, releasing a new advertisement today.
The advertisement includes audio and video of Kevin Rudd and Bill Shorten committing themselves to turning back boats. “Same old Labor,” the ad says. “Labor can’t be trusted on boats.” [Read more…]