Australia simply cannot afford Labor's increased refugee intake, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
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Australia simply cannot afford Labor's increased refugee intake, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
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Bahraini Justice Minister Sheik Khaled bin Ali Al Khalifa speaks during a press conference about the government efforts on Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) recommendations in Manama, Bahrain, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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This undated handout photo provided on Oct. 24, 2012 by the the Guardia di Finanza, Italy's financial police corps, shows a tax police officer next to a confiscated Ferrari, at the Guardia di Finanza quarters, in Pescara, Italy. Good plumbers might be worth their weight in gold, but when one was spotted zipping around near the town of Pescara in a bright red Ferrari, Italian tax police were fast on his trail. Eradicating entrenched, endemic tax evasion is crucial to Premier Mario Monti's quest to keep Italy from succumbing to the European debt crisis, and it is critical to fellow euro-zone members in more dire straits, such as Greece and Spain. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Guardia di Finanza, ho)
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Tax police officers look at maps of Italy as they follow tax evasion operations at the Guardia di Finanza headquarters, Italy's financial police corps, in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Good plumbers might be worth their weight in gold, but when one was spotted zipping around near the town of Pescara in a bright red Ferrari, Italian tax police were fast on his trail. Eradicating entrenched, endemic tax evasion is crucial to Premier Mario Monti's quest to keep Italy from succumbing to the European debt crisis, and it is critical to fellow euro-zone members in more dire straits, such as Greece and Spain. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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FILE - This April 19, 2011 file photo shows a member of the National Guard checking on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas. Illegal immigration has slowed in recent years, with the Border Patrol recently recording the fewest arrests in almost 40 years. But many people worry that the Mexican border, the most popular crossing point for newly arriving illegal immigrants, still isn’t secure more than a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Delcia Lopez, File)
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FILE - This is July 9, 2001 file photo of a mass grave which used to contain bodies of Kosovo Albanians at a police compound in Belgrade suburb of Batajnica, Serbia. The banner in front of the hole reads ``Stop Police.'' Amnesty International and regional Balkan human rights organizations, on Wednesday Aug. 29, 2012 urged the Balkan states to investigate the fate of some 14,000 people still missing from the region's conflicts and for those responsible for their disappearance to be punished. The groups charged ahead of the International Day of the Disappeared on Thursday that the Balkan governments lack political will to deal with the problem more than two decades after the wars started. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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Relatives searching for the missing from the Balkan conflicts, from left: Ljiljana Alvir, Seida Karabasic, Olgica Bozanic attend a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. Amnesty International and regional Balkan human rights organizations, on Wednesday urged the Balkan states to investigate the fate of some 14,000 people still missing from the region's conflicts and for those responsible for their disappearance to be punished. The groups charged ahead of the International Day of the Disappeared on Thursday that the Balkan governments lack political will to deal with the problem more than two decades after the wars started. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
NSW Government crackdown on public housing rent
The New South Wales Government has announced a crackdown on people who are not paying rent in public housing blocks.
Tenants pay some rent, although it's heavily subsidised by the government.
The Community Services Minister Pru Goward says about 10-per-cent of households lie about the number of people living there in order to pay less rent.
"It's not fair, and it's not right.
"We have more than 50 thousand people on our waiting list.
"We have a shortage of money for emergency accommodation, for overnight accommodation. This additional rent helps us support other people who need housing," she said.
Ms Goward's announced a two-month amnesty during which people will not be penalised for telling the truth, and there will also be a 'dob-in' phone line for neighbours.
"Often neighbours are frightened of ringing up (the Department of) Housing for fear of reprisals.
"This give them complete anonymity and it's very easy to do.
"So, if you think one of your neighbours, who's a public housing tenant, has undeclared occupants then you are welcome to declare that and to ring the dob-in line," she said.
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