PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has slapped down calls for Australia to take more refugees, as Labor's attack on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton over his warning refugees will take Aussie jobs backfired badly. 
Mr Dutton warned against raising the refugee intake because many of them would "languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare".
But Labor's outrage turned to embarrassment yesterday when it was revealed the party's own policy document warns refugees will "undermine labour productivity" and "stymie long-term economic and social opportunities".
On his third visit to Western Sydney, Mr Turnbull again -attacked Labor over its border protection credentials.
Labor has pledged to increase the refugee intake from 18,000 a year to 27,000 if it wins the   July 2 election, but its immigration spokesman Richard Marles and foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek have both failed to put a cost on the policy.Mr Turnbull said Australia, which will lift its humanitarian intake from 13,000 to 18,000 on top of a one-off acceptances of 12,000 Syrian refugees, now had "the balance about right".