Senate debates Motions

Asylum Seekers


Sarah Hanson-Young

Sarah Hanson-Young SA, Australian Greens

12:21 pm

I move:

That the Senate calls on the Government to cease the current 'on water' screening and transfers of asylum seekers which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said fall well short of Australia's international obligations and could mean that asylum seekers were returned, or refouled, to persecution.

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