{"id":2710,"date":"2019-05-10T00:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2019-05-10T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:25:29","slug":"morrison-government-will-continue-to-protect-our-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/morrison-government-will-continue-to-protect-our-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison Government Will Continue to Protect Our Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government\u2019s economic management underpins the investments needed to protect our borders and keep Australians safe.<br \/>\nThe Coalition\u2019s strong border protection policies under Operation Sovereign Borders have ended the deaths at sea and enabled us to close 19 detention centres, with all children placed in detention by Labor removed from that detention.<br \/>\nWe have achieved this by not compromising on our three proven border protection policies, which have stopped the boats: regional processing, turn-backs where it is safe to do so, and temporary protection visas.<br \/>\nBy closing detention centres, we returned $638 million to the Budget and reclaimed control of the refugee and humanitarian program from criminal syndicates.<br \/>\nWe have increased Australia\u2019s humanitarian intake to 18,750 in 2018-19, and welcomed to Australia an additional 12,000 persecuted minority refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq.<br \/>\nWe have restored vital resources to our border agencies, along with technology to enhance passenger screening and automation and we have worked steadfastly on community protections by strengthening the character requirements of visa holders and introducing the mandatory cancellation of visas of non-citizens who commit serious crimes.<br \/>\nIn total, we have cancelled the visas of over 4,400 non-citizen criminals.<br \/>\nBy contrast, Labor\u2019s promise to dismantle our proven three pillars of border protection would hand control of our border back to the people smugglers.<br \/>\nLast time they were in government, Labor\u2019s policies hamstrung our border agencies and public confidence in the migration program evaporated.<br \/>\nLabor hasn\u2019t learnt their lesson and is seeking to return to these dangerous policies.<br \/>\nAt every turn Labor has sought to water down the Government\u2019s laws to protect the Australian community. In office, they would go further still.<br \/>\nOnly the Morrison Government has the necessary suite of proven policies to keep Australians safe and our borders secure. You simply cannot trust Labor on border protection.<br \/>\nYou can find out more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberal.org.au\/our-plan-protect-our-borders-keep-australians-safe\">our Plan to Keep Our Borders Secure here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government\u2019s economic management underpins the investments needed to protect our borders and keep Australians safe. The Coalition\u2019s strong border protection policies under Operation Sovereign Borders have ended the deaths at sea and enabled us to close 19 detention centres, with all children placed in detention by Labor removed from that detention. We have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/morrison-government-will-continue-to-protect-our-borders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morrison Government Will Continue to Protect Our Borders&#8221;<\/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-2710","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\/2710","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=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}