Tony Burke
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"Anthony Stephen 'Tony' Burke" is an Australian politician representing the Australian Labor Party/Labor Party, and was the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (Australia)/Minister for Immigration, Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, the Minister for the Arts, and the Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Second Rudd Ministry. Burke first entered public office in 2003 as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. In October 2004 Burke moved from state to federal parliament on being elected to the federal seat of Division of Watson/Watson, New South Wales.

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This is a system driven by political image rather than genuine safeguards.

We don't know how many of those people are Australian citizens, we don't know how much longer than three weeks they were detained.

They can't come after us. There's no way.

We're talking about extraordinary amounts of money simply for a public relations exercise.

Jobs should be advertised in Australia before anybody even thinks of handing opportunities overseas.

I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to take these asylum seekers as far away as possible from the best legal teams.