Australia: Opposition leader hit for being soft on asylum-seekers
May 05, 2009
Malcolm Turnbull has been criticised from within his own party as being soft on asylum seekers as another boat carrying 50 people was intercepted off the West Australian coast yesterday.
The Liberal backbencher Bronwyn Bishop said people smugglers were capitalising on Labor's softer immigration policies. She then went on to accuse the Opposition Leader of himself weakening.
'Malcolm seems to have been strong at the beginning, but now he has gone soft,' the Manly Daily quoted her as saying.
The Brisbane Times
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