The Prime Minister is ruling out an emergency intake of refugees in response to the migrant crisis in Europe. New Zealand has not increased its refugee quota since 1987, yet our population has grown 40 per cent in that time, and our quota has actually dropped 50 places, since then. Murdoch Stephens is the spokesperson and lead researcher for Doing Our Bit a group that has been campaigning for over two and a half years, to double New Zealand's Refugee Quota.
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