No such thing as climate change refugees: Vanstone.


Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone says her Department has not made any plans to deal with so-called "climate change" refugees.
Senator Vanstone says she is not aware of requests from Pacific nations to look at the issue of people whose homes are under threat from rising sea levels.
She has told a Senate Estimates Committee the term "refugee" is being wrongly used.
"There's no such thing as a climate [change] refugee," she said.
"... In my view it diminishes the importance the international community should put on refugees to call everyone else who might need to be relocated for humanitarian reasons a refugee."