What is Dan Tehan and the Coalition offering on asylum seeker policy?
As the overall number of asylum seekers in Australia continues to rise and is now over 120,000, Shadow Immigration Spokesperson Dan Tehan regularly criticises the Labor Government for not doing enough to get control of asylum seeker numbers. But with a Federal Election just months away, we do not know what either the Coalition or Labor will do to get on top of the issue.
Knowing Peter Dutton’s abysmal record on immigration integrity, including allowing the biggest labour trafficking scam in Australia’s history, Tehan has to tread carefully. While Tehan says “Australians will be cynical that Labor is serious about addressing this problem”, he avoids mentioning Dutton’s record or what a Coalition Government should have done when it was in power or would do in the future.
Tehan criticises the number of asylum applications under the Labor Government but fails to mention the huge asylum seeker application record of just under 28,000 in 2017-18 was set when Peter Dutton was Home Affairs minister. That started the massive asylum seeker backlog that is the source of the current problems.
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