This funding commitment will place Australia in the top 5 of global contributors to the UNHCR. Labor will also reinstate references to the UN Refugees Convention in the Migration Act to reverse the Abbott-Turnbull Government’s retrograde efforts to undermine international law. Furthermore, we will take a leadership role within South East Asia and the Pacific to build a regional humanitarian framework to improve the situation of asylum seekers.
for limiting the welfare state, for example public funding for social services or social security, e.g. private care before state care