ACT offers to resettle refugees held in 'inhumane' offshore detention centres
by Ben Doherty from World news | The Guardian on (#304K6)
Motion passes without division and declares government willing to settle people from Manus Island and Nauru
The ACT government has offered to resettle refugees from Australia's offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru.
A motion passed the unicameral ACT legislative assembly, without division, declaring "that the ACT government is willing and ready to settle refugees and asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru in Canberra as part of a national program of resettlement".
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