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Tony Abbott Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants
By Austin Ramzy
— The New York Times
Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia, used
his first major speech since his ouster last month to denounce Europe’s
migration policies, warning in London that the continent risked
“fundamentally weakening itself” through “misguided altruism” as large
numbers of asylum seekers arrive.
“All countries that say ‘anyone who gets here can stay
here’ are now in peril, given the scale of the population movements
that are starting to be seen,” Mr. Abbott, a conservative, said on
Tuesday during a lecture honoring the British prime minister Margaret
Thatcher.
Mr. Abbott backed an aggressive policy on migration during
his two years in office. The Australian authorities turned away boats
and refused to accept asylum seekers intercepted at sea, instead sending
them to offshore camps. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced
Mr. Abbott in September in a party coup, has announced no change to
those policies.
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