House debates Private Members’ Business
Asylum Seekers
Graham Perrett Moreton, Australian Labor Party
11:11 am
Even though he went over there to try to facilitate the signing, we still have a country that is not a signatory to the refugee convention. It makes the member for Cook’s sudden fondness for the UN refugee convention seem a little bit insincere. It is a far cry from the days of ‘turn back the boats’. As I said to many of my constituents, especially those from the Hazara community who spent years languishing in detention centres under the Howard regime—
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