Michael is joined by Chris Kenny, The Australian newspaper Associate editor (national affairs) & Sky News host of the Kenny Report & Kenny On Media, regarding his recent article that examines the dilemma facing the government if it chooses a hard-line attitude towards the plight of the Biloela family or the compassionate.

 

Mr Kenny writes, ‘A couple who separately risked their lives on people-smuggling voyages to get to Australia almost a decade ago, met and married here before having two children and settling in the regional Queensland town of Biloela, want to stay. It is at once understandable, but a fraught proposition for national border protection policy.’

 

‘The push to grant a compassionate exception to border security rules for the “Biloela family” is one that risks undermining a regime that has led to the elimination of criminal people-smuggling exploitation, saving of lives and enabling of record levels of safe and orderly humanitarian immigration intakes (a compassionate outcome on any score).’

Michael is joined by Chris Kenny, The Australian newspaper Associate editor (national affairs) &amp; Sky News host of the&nbsp;Kenny&nbsp;Report &amp;&nbsp;Kenny&nbsp;On Media, regarding his recent article that examines the dilemma facing the government if it chooses a hard-line attitude towards the plight of the Biloela family or the compassionate.
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Mr Kenny writes, &lsquo;A couple who separately risked their lives on people-smuggling voyages to get to Australia almost a decade ago, met and married here before having two children and settling in the regional Queensland town of Biloela, want to stay. It is at once understandable, but a fraught proposition for national border protection policy.&rsquo;
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&lsquo;The push to grant a compassionate exception to border security rules for the &ldquo;Biloela family&rdquo; is one that risks undermining a regime that has led to the elimination of criminal people-smuggling exploitation, saving of lives and enabling of record levels of safe and orderly humanitarian immigration intakes (a compassionate outcome on any score).&rsquo;

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