Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that the report by the Edmund Rice Centre into returned Afghani asylum seekers found that:

(i)

as many as nine men returned from Nauru may have been killed, and three children of people sent back from Nauru are confirmed as killed, and

(ii)

that many asylum seekers who were told by officials of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs that Afghanistan was safe, have faced renewed persecution and the dangers of on-going war upon return and that many of these people have been forced to flee again; and

(b)

calls on the Government to:

(i)

stop attacking the authors of the report, and

(ii)

investigate the claims made in the report.

Question put.