Radio Adelaide Breakfast host Tim Brunero interviews Arja Keski-Nummi – one of the authors of our recent report, A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers.

To hear the full interview click here. 

Before working at the CPD Aria worked with the Department of Immigration for 30 years. She’s been a senior advisor to Hawke government immigration ministers like Gerry Hand and Mick Young. In 2010 she received the Public service medal for her work delivering Australia’s humanitarian program. Tim Brunero spoke to Arja and he asked her what needs to be done to take the nastiness out of the issue. 

CPD has released A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers, a report which comprehensively critiques Australia’s refugee and asylum policies and finds they are inhumane, ineffective and expensive.

Download the full report here.