Senate debates

Thursday, 28 November 2024

Bills

Migration Amendment Bill 2024, Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024, Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2024; Second Reading

9:25 pm

Photo of Andrew McLachlanAndrew McLachlan (SA, Deputy-President) | Hansard source

The question is that the Australian Greens second reading amendment on sheet 3228 be agreed to.

Australian Greens ' circulated amendment in respect of the Migration Amendment Bill 2024—

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate notes that:

(a) this bill will be part of a brutal package of bills that will be one of the most extreme changes in migration policy since White Australia;

(b) this bill and related bills will result in families being torn apart, communities being separated, and serious damage to Australia as a multicultural country; and

(c) this bill should have never been proposed, and Australia is a worse place because it was".

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