Scoop Coverage: NZ Responds to Refugee Crisis 7 Sep 2015
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Gordon
Campbell: On The Lack Of Leadership On
Refugees
John Key still doesn’t get it. At least he’s now talking about raising the UN quota, after – only last Monday – flatly denying that there was any need to do so. Yet even this potential turnaround (the step has yet to be taken ) seems weirdly out of whack. As RNZ has reported:
Mr Key said the Government needed to get good advice before upping its intake in order to ensure other refugees already here were not disadvantaged.
Huh?
Surely, the only way that existing refugees would be
disadvantaged would be if Key upped the intake
without increasing the funds or the services
allocated to meet their needs... More>>
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