We can take more refugees: Refugee Council of Australia

interview
Lindy Kerin AM on ABC Radio National September 7, 2015 08:30:00
………..The president of the Refugee Council of Australia Phil Glendenning says Australia could and should do more.
PHIL GLENDENNING: It's quite clearly unsatisfactory given the level of crisis that we're seeing around the world at the moment.
Look, it is, you know, it is good that if the Prime Minister is prepared to take more people from Syria but they should not be at the expense of other people that we have obliged to take also.
We'd need to see extra places made available not to shuffle around with the fairly small numbers we take anyway. …………. We've got countries like Germany taking upwards of 800,000.
The Europeans are certainly showing a much clearer way in exercising not just compassion but their international obligations.
And I think moreover, Australia was a party to a lot of the wars that have gone on in places like Iraq and Afghanistan that have indirectly contributed to the crisis that we now see in Syria and I think we have a very strong obligation to be involved with protecting the very people who are fleeing from the dangers that we've had a hand in creating…………
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