Labor accused of trying to ‘sneak through’ law change to strip non-citizens of fair process
by Josh Butler from World news | The Guardian on (#6ZMAE)
Greens' David Shoebridge calls amendment one of the nastiest, meanest attacks' on multicultural Australia
Refugee and human rights groups will launch a campaign demanding the federal government scrap a controversial migration amendment to explicitly remove procedural fairness in deportation decisions for foreign-born criminals, a proposal which advocates say is causing alarm among migrants.
The Senate on Thursday rejected a Greens push for an inquiry into the legislation, which the senator David Shoebridge slammed as one of the nastiest, meanest attacks" on multicultural Australia.
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