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

This motion contains white supremacist rot. We'll be voting against it. This paranoid, racist motion is, unfortunately, only a few steps away from the policies of many members of the governing Liberal and National parties. Their policies towards refugees in the motion are broadly the same as the Labor and Liberal consensus of cruelty to refugees. It's not enough to vote this motion down; we need to join together to stop marching this country down the hateful path that Senator Anning advocates. My advice to Senator Anning is: stop beating up on migrants, stop beating up on refugees and start supporting multicultural Australia. My advice to the Liberal, National and Australian Labor parties in this place is: act to make Australia's refugee program truly non-discriminatory by ending the exile of people who arrived in Australia by boat asking for our help.

Question negatived.