Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

This motion contains a blatant straw-man immigration argument from conservatives, who long for a return to apartheid and the White Australia Policy. The Greens also call on the government to commit to a non-discriminatory immigration policy, not because we think white South African farmers are being discriminated against but because we know that underprivileged non-white people from the world's least developed countries are being discriminated against, because Australia does have a discriminatory migration policy. It is discrimination based on mode of arrival, which has the effect of discriminating against groups of people based on their wealth, their countries of origin and the colour of their skin.