Bill Shorten Assures Party Dissenters Safe And Humane Policy For Asylum Seekers

And Mr Shorten has pledged that a Shorten Labor government would move to make it law within its first 100 days.

The editorial backed Shorten’s leadership against the newspaper’s earlier promotion of the risk of a challenge by his deputy Tanya Plibersek, who hails from the “left” factions.

He got here underneath sustained assault after he introduced on Wednesday that a Labor authorities should have the choice of turning back boats, with many in the left deeply angered by what they considered an ambush.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton attacked Shorten for his policy shift, accusing him of “playing word games”.

OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten has warned against Australia opening up the floodgates for Chinese workers as part of the free trade deal inked a year ago.

Instead, the vote will only become binding on Labor MPs in the 46th Parliament – two three-year terms away.

Members at the ALP National Conference reached a contentious agreement over the weekend to pursue a policy to turn back asylum seeker boats intercepted in Australian waters.

Here’s a few of Shorten’s tweets from the ALP National Conference.

Currently, government MPs must vote against marriage equality, meaning a bill would have no chance of passing the Australian parliament.

Mr Abbott has so far refused to grant his MPs that latitude to vote with their individual conscience.

“We urge supporters of marriage equality in the Coalition to carry the issue forward in their party room and we urge the Prime Minister to stick to his pre-election commitment of allowing the party room to debate a free vote”.

“I thought Labor was once the party of workers but now they are happy to sacrifice regional jobs to chase latte-sipping “green” votes in the inner city”, she said.

Mr Shorten also wants half of the party’s MPs by 2025 to be female.

Labor would continue assessing asylum seekers at sea but would consider assessing people onshore before they’re transferred to Nauru or Manus Island, he said.

“I think it is very likely that a new Labor government would be tested by people smuggling networks”, Mr Marles told ABC Radio on Monday.

“Bring it on”, he said as he confirmed his party’s climate change policy would revolve around a renewable energy target of 50% by 2030.