Labor\u2019s commitment to the cruelty of offshore detention and boat turnbacks is disappointing, but not surprising, Greens immigration spokesperson Nick McKim says.
\n\u201cLabor cannot call themselves progressive while they continue to support these inhumane measures\u201d Senator McKim said.
\n\u201cIndefinite detention on Manus Island and Nauru, which began under Labor, has destroyed so many lives.\u201d
\n\u201cThe tide has turned on offshore detention \u2013 the Australian people want it to end.\u201d
\n\u201cAdditional support for the UNHCR is welcome, as is an increase in Australia\u2019s humanitarian intake.\u201d
\n\u201cBut it is long past time for Labor to commit to ending the cruelty of offshore detention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor\u2019s commitment to the cruelty of offshore detention and boat turnbacks is disappointing, but not surprising, Greens immigration spokesperson Nick McKim says. \u201cLabor cannot call themselves progressive while they continue to support these inhumane measures\u201d Senator McKim said. \u201cIndefinite detention on Manus Island and Nauru, which began under Labor, has destroyed so many lives.\u201d \u201cThe … Continue reading “Labor locks in cruelty to refugees”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}