Integration News
04 Oct 2007
The Age: Coalition accused of race politics
...But Opposition immigration spokesman Tony Burke seized on Mr Andrews' switch, saying the 2007-08 refugee quota had been realigned after advice from the UN refugee agency. "There was nothing said at the time about these numbers changing because of issue
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03 Oct 2007
ABC News: Andrews defends African refugee reduction
Labor Immigration spokesperson Tony Burke says services to help refugees settle in Australia should be improved and the Minister has not raised the integration issue in the past.
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03 Oct 2007
ABC News: Andrews changed reasons for refugee reduction: Labor
The Federal Opposition says Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews appears to have changed his justification for slashing Australia's intake of African refugees.
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02 Oct 2007
NEWS.com.au: African migrants not problem settlers
Opposition immigration spokesman Tony Burke said refugees and humanitarian entrants needed better support to help them settle into Australia, particularly through improved English training and job opportunities.
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02 Oct 2007
The Australian: Africans have trouble settling here
Opposition immigration spokesman Tony Burke said some migrants from all backgrounds had trouble settling into life in Australia. But the Government could be doing much more to help new arrivals become accustomed to Australia, Mr Burke said.
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01 Aug 2007
The Adelaide Advertiser: Stricter test for migrants
Labor immigration spokesman Tony Burke said 90 per cent of people who went through the Government's English language program completed it without achieving functional English.
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30 Jul 2007
The Age: Language aid for refugees
REFUGEES from war-torn countries would get more time learning English and thousands of them would learn on the job, rather than only in the classroom, under an ALP plan to shake up migrant education.
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26 Jun 2007
ABC Online: English requirements don't address key safety concerns
Labor's immigration spokesman Tony Burke says the English requirement is a small step in the right direction, but there are still problems with the visa system. "There's some areas where your safety implications go way beyond just an English language requ
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19 Apr 2007
The Age: Refugees in English difficulties
REFUGEES from war-torn nations are failing to learn adequate English, the Opposition says. It says the adult migrant English program does not take into account that many people are illiterate in their own language and have never been in a classroom before
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22 Feb 2007
Norther Daily Leader: Resettlement plan in Tamworth "unworkable"
Labor's immigration spokesman Tony Burke criticised the Government for trying to shoe horn Tamworth into an unworkable "one-size-fits-all" immigration policy when he visited the regional centre this week.
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25 Jan 2007
The Australian: Lib migrant policy `stokes race unrest'
"The Government is trying to catch up on the issue of integration," he said. "That we have a multicultural society is a given, it's true. You need to acknowledge that and have integration policies to make it work," Tony Burke said.
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24 Jan 2007
The Courier Mail: Multiculturalism dumped
"The real limitation on getting a fresh start is the policies that (former minister) Amanda Vanstone was pursuing were always the policies that John Howard wanted," Mr Burke said.
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23 Jan 2007
The Daily Telegraph: Howard drops multiculturalism
?Labor has seen the importance of these portfolios ? kept multicultural affairs but added a specific focus on integration ? the government has left no-one in charge of these areas.?
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17 Jan 2007
The Daily Telegraph: Pride in my convict past
How we got here, whether our ancestors were always here, came last century or last week, is part of who we all are as a nation.
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14 Dec 2006
The Age Online: Labor 'still backs multiculturalism'
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils adviser Haset Sali supported Mr Burke's position, saying it was important for migrants to integrate into Australian society.
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14 Dec 2006
The Australian: Rudd alters migrant pitch to outflank PM
"The Government has been talking about integration as though integration and multiculturalism are mutually exclusive," Mr Burke said. "This is wrong. Integration is the way to make a multicultural society work."
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11 Dec 2006
The Daily Telegraph: Multiculturalism is vital
If the three rules for making property investment work are location, location, location then the three rules for making our society work are integration, integration, integration.
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