"Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts."

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What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.

— Malcolm Turnbull