Come by boat, stay FOREVER: How Labor PM Bill Shorten would gift permanent residency to 10,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Australia illegally – giving them the right to full welfare payments
- If elected, the Labor government looking to gift residency to asylum seekers
- Growing list of asylum seekers looking for residency has exceeded $2billion
- Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton believes Bill Shorten’s objective is ignorant
A Labor government could gift permanent residency to almost 10,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Australia illegally.
Labor’s national conference in Adelaide this weekend will consider a motion to end offshore processing of boat arrivals by scrapping ‘indefinite detention’ on Manus Island and Nauru.
Under the left faction’s proposal, thousands of asylum seekers would be granted permanent protection in Australia should Labor win next year’s federal election as widely predicted by opinion polls.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten (pictured) is looking to gift up to 10,000 asylum seekers permanent Australian residency

If elected at the next federal election, the Labor government is looking to gift residency to up to 10,000 asylum seekers in Australia
The end result would be permanent residency for asylum seekers, with full work and welfare rights.
In other news:
UN to adopt migration pact at meeting hit by withdrawals
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was finalised at the UN in July after 18 months of talks and is due to be formally adopted with the bang of a gavel at the start of the two-day conference in Marrakesh.
Al Jizz is jubilant:




















