Tony Burke shuts down push for radical changes to Labor's asylum-seeker policy

Party’s national conference will not adopt any position ‘that would start the drownings again’, manager of opposition business says

Senior Labor MP Tony Burke has shut down a push from within the Labor party to adopt radical changes to its asylum-seeker policy.

Some refugee advocates within Labor are calling for an end to offshore processing and boat turnbacks ahead of the party’s upcoming national conference.

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