Australia news live: Richard Marles insists Tony Burke’s speech on Labor’s new restrictive immigration policy ‘hasn’t been called off’

Australia's deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, says a National Press Club speech by cabinet minister Tony Burke on Labor's new, more restrictive immigration policy has not been called off, The Guardian reports. The report gives no further detail on the policy itself or on why the speech's status had been in question.

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