Malcolm Turnbull has claimed Australia’s border protection policy is the best in the world, ahead of refugee talks at the United Nations which will include fresh scrutiny of Australia’s offshore detention system. The prime minister said in New York on Saturday that Australia’s border policies, which include indefinite offshore detention and controversial boat turnbacks at sea, were the “right responses”. “Our policy on border protection is the best in the world,” Turnbull claimed. Read moreHe hopes the meeting will address the level of displacement the world has not seen since the days of the second world war. Advocates want the government to boost Australia’s humanitarian intake beyond the slated 18,750 by 2018-19 and speed up the pace of resettling refugees from Syria and Iraq.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2016 22:41 UTC