Labor also seeks to overturn court decision that forced it to release 100 people from onshore detention despite character concerns
In December the Australian government lost a case in which the full federal court ruled that aggregate sentences should not trigger automatic visa cancellation under the character provisions of the Migration Act.On Tuesday afternoon the governmenta bill in the upper house restoring its previous interpretation that sentences for multiple offences that are aggregated to a term of imprisonment of 12 months or more should trigger mandatory visa cancellation.
The previous instrument expired on 1 October. Burke said it was a “time-sensitive” matter that needed to be resolved on Tuesday. The manager of opposition business, Paul Fletcher, agreed that this was a matter of urgency, accusing the government in the house of “absolutely and totally [having] dropped the ball on a matter of national security”.
The shadow home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, said it was “unusual and extraordinary” the government needed fresh authorisation, adding that it was “deeply concerning” the earlier instrument had been allowed to lapse.
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