Additional 26,500 Afghan migrants under Albanese — but Morrison made the commitment. Ryan Dally canes Labor for importing incompatible migrants:

The Albanese Government has quietly approved an additional 26,500 Afghan migrants, family reunions and welfare support.

A spokesman said priority is given to “persecuted minorities, women, children, and LGBTQI+ individuals”

What changes when they land here? They still live the same lifestyle and then try to push it onto us.

Albanese? No, it was the uniparty. Brave AI:

The 26,500 Afghan places are real, but they are a Coalition-era pledge that the Albanese government carried forward, not a new Albanese approval.

In August 2021, the Morrison government first committed to 3,000 humanitarian places for Afghans, then expanded it in January and March 2022 to 26,500 humanitarian + 5,000 family visas over five years (2021-22 to 2025-26), including a 16,500-place special intake from July 2022.

The Albanese Government (in office from May 2022) inherited and continued that pre-existing commitment — it did not “quietly approve” it.

The Albanese government’s own distinct refugee-policy moves were raising the general humanitarian program to 20,000 places in 2023, and in August 2026 intervening to block Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s plan to cut it back to 13,750.

Craig Kelly points out that first the Labor Party, then later the Islamic Party, will benefit politically:

26,500 of which 95% will be voting Labor (or the Islamic Party preferencing Labor) in 4 years time.

Albanese’s migration policy is firstly a vote harvesting exercise for the Labor Party.

Ah, the wily ways of the bureaucracy and the uniparty.