John Key still doesn’t get it. At least he’s now talking about raising the UN quota, after – only last Monday – flatly
denying that there was any need to do so. Yet even this potential turnaround (the step has yet to be taken ) seems
weirdly out of whack. As RNZ has reported:
Mr Key said the Government needed to get good advice before upping its intake in order to ensure other refugees already
here were not disadvantaged.
Huh? Surely, the only way that existing refugees would be disadvantaged would be if Key upped the intake without increasing the funds or the services allocated to meet their needs... More>>
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