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Twenty-two refugee women will arrive in Canberra tomorrow, having walked from Melbourne to parliament house to raise awareness about visa uncertainty for the 10,000 people who do not have a clear path to permanent residency.
The Tamil and Iranian women have walked 640km and are are all on temporary, expired, or bridging visas,” having been denied a fair assessment of their claims for permanent protection under the flawed and inaptly-named ‘Fast Track’ refugee assessment process that has impacted around 10,000 people”.
They want the government to know that “after a decade, our home is here”.
The group should arrive just before midday, tomorrow.
4m ago20.44 EDT
Questions then moved on as to whether the prime minister believed there was racism involved in the referendum campaign.
Q: Is there some involved in racism in there, in the campaign?
Albanese:
I think people will make their own judgements on these issues.
Obviously, there were elements I saw, you know, there was one meme I’ve spoken about, about the Uluru Statement from the Heart was a part of a global Jewish conspiracy with people pictured and their connections, or not, about that. There was a range of things that people will make their own judgements on.
What is important is how we move forward here, that the Government accepts the outcome of the referendum, it was a democratic process.
We accept it with the same graciousness that was shown, in my view by the Uluru Statement from the Heart. But we need to work through issues some work is continuing, of course, because not every issue, in terms of closing the gap was determined on Saturday.
The initiative, this work has been underway for a year to develop the specific closing the gap initiatives as part of this agreement.
This is something that my Government will continue to do across health, across education, across housing. I noticed the Northern Territory Government announcing today that the 100 homes have been built in remote communities in 100 days, that’s a part of an initiative that we’re partnering on.
5m ago20.43 EDT
Q: So, as a follow up to that –
Albanese:
No, wait. Unless you’re an Indigenous…
2023-10-16 19:26:21
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