The shocking death of a 23-year-old Tamil refugee has prompted a group of independent and Greens MPs to call on the prime minister to act.
A group of 25 federal crossbench MPs have written a letter addressed to the prime minister and immigration minister urging them to allow asylum seeker s stuck in visa limbo a pathway to permanency in Australia.Crossbench MPs are calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Immigration Minister Tony Burke to create a "timely pathway to permanency" for thousands of asylum seeker s in visa limbo.
Independent MP for North Sydney Kylea Tink wants the federal government to change its policy towards those on temporary visas.It suggests the best way to do this is to allow these asylum seekers still in limbo a path to permanency, just "I welcome any step towards progression of a situation of people who have faced a decade of deliberate legally-imposed limbo," she said.
Rolling bridging visas of three to six months at a time has deprived thousands of access to Medicare or work rights, she said.
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