澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-05-28
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The forecast number of asylum1 seekers arriving in Australia this year has quadrupled, last year, the immigration department estimated almost half 5,5000 would seek asylum in 2012-13. But the immigration department secretary Martin Bowles has confirmed that more than 22,500 have arrived so far.
A federal
labor2 backbencher is planning voice concerns over the no advantage test for asylum seekers, he shall do that in the party's
caucus3 meeting today. The government announced the principle after the release of the Angus Houston-led expert panel report. Laura Smyth wants to encourage a caucus debate to find a clearer definition of the test.
Labor is split over proposed changes to political party funding ahead of the caucus meeting this morning. Under the plan, parties would be paid a dollar a year for every vote they received, it would also see the threshold for disclosing priviate donations lowered to 5,000 dollars.
The father of two girls abused by a Catholic priest says that apologies by
Cardinal4 George Pell are meaningless unless they're followed up with reelections. Cardinal Pell gave evidence of the Victorian
inquiry5 into child sex abuse yesterday, admitting there had been a
systematic6 cover up of child abuse. Anthony Foster hopes the inquiry leads to real changes to force the church to look at victims.
And at least 50 people have been killed in a series of car bombs in Iraq. The explosions went off in busy markets and shopping areas right across Baghdad.
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