{"id":3305,"date":"2014-08-01T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2014-08-01T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T17:55:13","slug":"abbott-votes-to-turn-back-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"Abbott votes to turn back families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Abbott Government has voted to close the door on migrant families bringing their parents to Australia by abolishing the non-contributory and other family visa categories. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tony Abbott has betrayed our ethnic communities by removing any chance of them being able to bring their parents to Australia without forking out up to a reported $120,000.<\/p>\n<p>This is a shameful act by a government completely out of touch with ethnic communities and another example of this Government\u2019s unfair Budget targeting low and middle-income earners.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Opposition moved a disallowance motion to overturn this mean and tricky decision but had it blocked by the Abbott Government.<\/p>\n<p>Not a single Government member of the House of Representatives voted to disallow these cruel regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The axing of these family and carer visas denies Filipino migrants the chance to be reunited with their parents, to care for them and live out their lives as a family.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Abbott Government has closed the door on family visas, abandoning ethnic families and communities across Australia. This is a cruel move by a Government that is completely out of touch with migrant communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbott Government has voted to close the door on migrant families bringing their parents to Australia by abolishing the non-contributory and other family visa categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,45,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}