Shorten pledges $500 million for UNHCR in border protection policy
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Bill Shorten has promised Labor will commit $500 million over five years to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in a policy designed simultaneously to reassure voters and satisfy the party on the politically sensitive issue of border protection.
This was among proposed new measures on asylum seeker policy the opposition leader...
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