He (Bill Shorten) is standing in the way of $100 million a year in additional funding to drought proof communities across Australia.
'Labor has got its priorities wrong.'
Australia's Humanitarian Program had already increased to 18,750 for 2018-19 - it's largest in 30 years, he added.
The first five years of a Labor government would also see funding to the United Nations' refugee agency increase 20-fold from $25million to $500million.
Figures from 2015-16 show that of those asylum seekers accepted into Australia, about 6,730 were refugees, 5,032 were special humanitarian entrants and 1,227 were women deemed to be at risk.
Australia settles more refugees per capita than other first-world countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.
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