Refugee policy: The fight to shift Labor

Labor supporters have been horrified by Julia Gillard’s efforts to drag the Labor Party further to the right. But the Labor leadership’s anti-refugee policies are meeting resistance in the party’s ranks. In June, Victorian Labor for Refugees resolutions—opposing children in detention, the re-opening of Curtin and calling for an end to offshore processing—were supported by … Continue reading Refugee policy: The fight to shift Labor