Private citizens could sponsor up to 10,000 new refugees each year, under a Greens plan
The Greens have proposed establishing a program where Australians can sponsor individual refugees, taking in an additional 10,000 people per year who have been displaced around the world.
SBS News spoke to veteran barrister-turned-Greens candidate Julian Burnside about the policy, who talked up the idea of"letting members of our community sponsor individual refugees"."It means that even if the government imposes a rigid cap on the numbers, some individual members of the community may, for whatever reason, want to bring a particular refugee into the country and they would effectively bear the cost of doing that," he said.
Mr Burnside said this was important as"Australia is one of the richest countries in the world and we are not taking our fair share".
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