You may have missed it in the Christmas rush, but opposition leader Bill Shorten proposes to quadruple taxpayer handouts to the United Nations Refugees Agency, in a move that will curry favour with Labor Left.
At the Labor national conference in Adelaide near the end of last year Bill Shorten announced that a Labor government would massively increase funding to the United Nations Refugee Agency to the tune of $500 million.
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