A group of MPs from across the political spectrum have convened in Canberra for fresh talks on asylum seeker policy.
Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon and Steve Georganas, the coalition’s Judi Moylan, the Greens’ Adam Bandt and independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott are among those at the cross-party working group on refugees meeting.
Experts from the Immigration Department, Australian Federal Police and the UNHCR have briefed the MPs on the problem and possible policy solutions.
Mr Bandt said there was a lot of “goodwill” amongst the MPs.
“We’re having some productive discussions,” he told reporters in Canberra.
The MPs began meeting in June amid an ongoing parliamentary impasse over asylum seeker policy.
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