Senate debates Bills

Administrative Review Tribunal (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2024; Second Reading


David Shoebridge

David Shoebridge NSW, Australian Greens

7:03 pm

Thank you. That's what the coalition does. It likes cruelty. It likes nastiness. They specialise in it, and these provisions of the bill were designed to be nasty to people. I know the coalition doesn't like it when we speak the truth about their motivations on particular bills. I know it's uncomfortable. I know the history of being mean to people, to refugees—being deliberately cruel, having intentionally cruel policies—is awkward for some members in the coalition, and I accept that their own personal values are sometimes challenged by what they have to vote for. I accept that on a personal level. But the institution of the coalition specialises in this cruelty. They actually deliberately inflict cruelty on refugees and migrants as part of the coalition's DNA.

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