Explainer: why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
- Written by Azadeh Dastyari, Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University
A young girl protesting at a rally to bring refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia.AAP/Penny Stephens
Australia was one of 176 countries to vote in favour of the Global Compact on Refugees (refugee compact) in mid-November this year. The United Nations General Assembly will adopt it by the end of 2018.
However, Australia did not join the Glo...