A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers

Australia needs a circuit-breaker in our treatment of people seeking asylum from war and persecution.

Today, the Centre for Policy Development releases A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers – a comprehensive report setting out how to advance Australia's national interest by assuring that the claims of asylum seekers are considered rigorously but with compassion.

"This is an issue that should be above and beyond politics, not one to be exploited in a mindless, short-term political race to the bottom, the "winner" being the toughest and most inhumane to those who are predominately desperate people fleeing war and persecution in search of a new life for themselves and their families."

- Dr. John Hewson, AM. Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia (1990 – 1994)

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