UnitingJustice lodges submissions on immigration, Indigenous recognition

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:30:49 +0000

UnitingJustice submitted two reports to the federal government in January. The first, submitted to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, recommended Australia’s Humanitarian Programme intake be increased to at least 25 000 for 2015–2016 and increased over the following years to 50 000 annually. It also recommended that the offshore and onshore program intakes be de-linked, ...

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Church questions Cambodia “solution”

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:28:54 +0000

Ahead of Refugee Week, Sue Hutchinson and Rohan Salmond examine the federal government’s pursuit of a regional solution in asylum seeker policy. The federal government renewed its commitment to offshore processing of asylum seekers in the 2014 Budget with the closure of six onshore detention centres. The government is also in talks with Cambodia to ...

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UnitingJustice lodges submissions on immigration, Indigenous recognition

Church questions Cambodia “solution”