Labor\u2019s decision to oppose Greens legislation to evacuate refugees and people seeking asylum to safety in Australia – despite the bill being consistent with ALP policy – is an abject moral failure, the Greens say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor\u2019s decision to oppose the Bill is devastating for the people still trapped in PNG and Nauru,\u201d Greens Immigration and Citizenship Spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor has put its flawed political calculus above the lives of refugees it sent into exile a decade ago.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Bill is entirely consistent with the policy Labor took to the last election. For Labor not to vote for it is an abject moral failure and a rejection of the values of its voters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor has a moral responsibility to end this humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey sent people to Nauru and Manus Island in the first place, and ten years later around 150 people still remain in limbo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have worked in good faith to find a way through for the toxic refugee politics that the two major parties have created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe only barrier to this solution is now the courage of Labor MPs and Senators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor\u2019s decision to oppose Greens legislation to evacuate refugees and people seeking asylum to safety in Australia – despite the bill being consistent with ALP policy – is an abject moral failure, the Greens say. \u201cLabor\u2019s decision to oppose the Bill is devastating for the people still trapped in PNG and Nauru,\u201d Greens Immigration and … Continue reading “LABOR TOO GUTLESS TO SUPPORT OWN POLICY”<\/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-20600","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\/20600","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=20600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20602,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions\/20602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}