Prime Minister Scott Morrison\u2019s refusal to increase Australia\u2019s humanitarian intake to respond to the Afghanistan crisis is an insult and a failure of leadership, the Greens say.
\n\u201cGiven Australia\u2019s decades of interference in Afghanistan and our culpability for the current instability, today\u2019s announcement is grossly inadequate and a complete failure of leadership,\u201d Greens spokesperson for Immigration and Citizenship Nick McKim said.
\n\u201cBoth Canada and the UK are offering 20,000 humanitarian places for displaced Afghan people, and Australia should do likewise in addition to our existing intake.\u201d
\n\u201cThese visas are crucial to protect people including women, human rights advocates, LGBTIQ+ people, journalists, people who supported Australian defence and consular personnel, and people from ethnic and religious minorities like Hazara people who have previously been persecuted by the Taliban.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Australian government\u2019s response to the crisis has been flat-footed, inadequate, too little too late, and consistent with its existing heartless immigration policies.\u201d
\n\u201cThere is a moral imperative for the Australian Government to help Afghan people in their hour of crisis – in a crisis which our country did so much to create.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Scott Morrison\u2019s refusal to increase Australia\u2019s humanitarian intake to respond to the Afghanistan crisis is an insult and a failure of leadership, the Greens say. \u201cGiven Australia\u2019s decades of interference in Afghanistan and our culpability for the current instability, today\u2019s announcement is grossly inadequate and a complete failure of leadership,\u201d Greens spokesperson for … Continue reading “Morrison's Afghan Refugee Offer an Insult”<\/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-12581","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\/12581","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=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}