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why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?

  • Written by Azadeh Dastyari, Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University
why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?A young girl protesting at a rally to bring refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia.AAP/Penny Stephens

Australia was one of 176 countries to vote in favour of the Global Compact on Refugees (refugee compact) in mid-November this year. The United Nations General Assembly will adopt it by the end of 2018.

However, Australia did not join the Glo...

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