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This means helping to boost the assessment of refugee claims in Indonesia and Malaysia and increasing the refugees we resettle directly out of these camps, so there is no need for people to board boats in the first place\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>MEDIA CONTACT:\u00a0 Kelly Farrow 0427 604 760<\/div>\n<div>Office of Sarah Hanson-Young<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Abbott&#8217;s refusal to participate in the Multi-Party Reference Group shows the Coalition has no intention of saving lives, the Australian Greens said today. \u201cTony Abbott has no intention of helping refugees, but is only interested in continuing to play politics with the lives of these vulnerable people, even at the expense of our own navy officers\u2019 safety\u201d said Greens Immigration spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said today. &#8220;The Coalition\u2019s policy of turning\u00a0back boats and taking away their fuel shows they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[197,196,17,41,195,64,130,74,34,59],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-press-releases","tag-chris-barrie","tag-coalition","tag-greens","tag-indonesia","tag-multi-party-reference-group","tag-navy","tag-refugee-convention","tag-refugees","tag-senator-sarah-hanson-young","tag-tony-abbott","post-has-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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