Factcheck: is Labor’s policy on asylum seekers and refugees any different to the Coalition’s? | Australian election 2022 | The GuardianThis is as good as you will get on comparing Coalition/ALP policy on this subject. And it is the Guardian. ALP knew it had issues with this and made sure it was as close to Coalition as possible - this article shows that, semantics aside, they were.
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"Verdict
For better or worse, Labor has agreed with the Coalition that nobody who came by boat since 2013 will be resettled in Australia. There is bipartisan support for boat turnbacks, offshore detention and third-country resettlement.
The only remaining disagreement is TPVs, a policy plank that could semantically be considered part of Operation Sovereign Borders but is not logically connected to the deterrent because nobody who boards a boat now will be resettled in Australia.
The scary website designed to deter asylum seekers from coming to Australia makes no mention of visa categories. “No one who travels illegally to Australia by boat will be allowed to remain in Australia,” it says, and that seems deterrent enough."
