{"id":41712,"date":"2022-02-15T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/stroke-of-a-pen-coalition-urged-to-accept-afghan-refugees-in-addition-to-existing-intake"},"modified":"2022-02-15T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:30:21","slug":"stroke-of-a-pen-coalition-urged-to-accept-afghan-refugees-in-addition-to-existing-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41712","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stroke of a pen\u2019: Coalition urged to accept Afghan refugees in addition to existing intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration minister previously announced places for Afghan nationals within existing visa program in move critics call \u2018mean and tricky\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The immigration minister, Alex Hawke, has been urged to heed Australia\u2019s \u201cmoral obligation\u201d to Afghan nationals fleeing the Taliban by ensuring resettlement places are on top of the existing humanitarian intake.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of faith groups, veterans\u2019 advocates and members of the Afghan diaspora met with Hawke in Canberra on Monday to implore him to ramp up assistance after 20 years of Australian military involvement in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/stroke-of-a-pen-coalition-urged-to-accept-afghan-refugees-in-addition-to-existing-intake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration minister previously announced places for Afghan nationals within existing visa program in move critics call \u2018mean and tricky\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe immigration minister, Alex Hawke, has been urged to heed A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,645,388,491,494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-migration","category-refugees"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions\/41713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}