Article 6KQVT Penny Wong blames ‘Peter Dutton-Adam Bandt alliance’ for failure to pass Labor’s deportation laws

Penny Wong blames ‘Peter Dutton-Adam Bandt alliance’ for failure to pass Labor’s deportation laws

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Amy Remeikis
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But Greens' David Shoebridge says Labor has jumped the shark' with the legislation and it requires more scrutiny

Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has blamed a Peter Dutton-Adam Bandt alliance" for the government's failure to rush through draconian" deportation legislation in the parliament last week.

But Greens senator David Shoebridge, who has described the laws as draconian", said the Labor government was alone in supporting the laws without scrutiny, arguing it was everybody in the parliament except for Labor" who wanted further examination of legislation that looked like it had been drawn in crayon without any rational basis behind it".

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