David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. Your government has passed some of the most extreme far-right-wing anti-immigration legislation, including forcibly deporting people to third countries like Nauru, and now trying to deny them even natural justice. The Department of Home Affairs has said that these laws will impact around 100,000 people in our community. Why does your government call these people, many of whom are refugees, 'criminals', when you know they are not? Will you acknowledge that this rhetoric, this dog-whistling and dehumanising, fuels the far-right rallies we saw over the weekend?