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Asylum Seeker Policy – Where to now?
One of the most complex and controversial issues the Albanese Government will deal with during the current budget process will be asylum seeker policy.
- Abul Rizvi
- John Menadue/Pearls and Irritations
With around 130,000 asylum seekers in widely varying legal situations currently in Australia, the Government faces a wicked policy challenge of Gordian Knot proportions – but there will be no Alexander the Great who can easily cut through this.
The caseload is in two broad parts. Firstly, the legacy boat arrival caseload of around 31,000 people, the vast bulk of whom are living in the community in Australia. And secondly, just under 100,000 asylum seekers who…