Labor's package of migration legislation, including sweeping powers for the immigration minister, has passed the Senate with the Coalition's agreement. The bill allows for blanket visa bans on countries, payments to third countries for deportations, and bans on certain items in detention centers. Critics argue it attacks multicultural values and the Constitution.
Labor's package of migration legislation will pass the Senate , with the Coalition agreeing to pass the three bills. The changes to the Migration Act would give the immigration minister powers to impose blanket visa bans on countries, pay third countries to deport non-citizens, and ban items like phones from detention centres.
“These are important reforms that the coalition has negotiated in good faith with the government, because will not allow their mess and incompetence when it comes to community safety and national security to harm the Australian public anymore than it already has.” The power to impose travel bans will now be reviewed after three years, and will require the minister to provide a list of reasons as to why a ban would be imposed to any country, following negotiations by the coalition.
The second bill was introduced after the High Court ruled it unlawful to force former immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets and adhere to curfews. The measure could be used on a wide group of people. Home Affairs officials told an inquiry that as many as 80,000 people on bridging visas, in immigration detention, or in community detention are susceptible to removal.
“Home Affairs Officials addressed these questions. We take them at their word that it's not their intention to refoul anyone in violation of our international obligations. Any government, the coalition, would have consistently close obligations.”A number of cross bench MPs have slammed the move by the major parties.“This is a package of laws that is the most extreme that Australia has seen, really, since the White Australia Policy was abolished in the early 1970s.
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