Julian Leeser (Berowra, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

In question time, the Prime Minister quoted some words I said in the second reading debate on the temporary exclusion orders bill in 2019. What the Prime Minister didn't mention was that I was directly explaining how temporary exclusion orders would allow returns to be managed and why they should only be used in our security interests. The government refuses to issue temporary exclusion orders under its self-managed return policy. The government refuses to do exactly the thing that I said the government should do when I addressed the House in 2019. To imply my position is supportive of the government's current approach, as the Prime Minister has done, is misleading and disingenuous.

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