Updated: 05:10, Sunday December 4, 2011
The Australian Labor Party has backed a massive boost to the nation’s refugee intake while maintaining a controversial plan to process asylum seekers offshore under a deal with Malaysia.
Immigration minister Chris Bowen’s proposal to keep the people swap deal as party policy and increase the refugee intake to 20,000 a year from 13,500 has been given the official backing of the ALP at its national conference in Sydney.
Mr Bowen told delegates that they have to tackle the issue with a soft heart and a hard head.
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