Labor must not let Peter Dutton dictate its response to the High Court ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unconstitutional, the Greens say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a mess that Peter Dutton helped create so Labor should not let him determine its response,\u201d Greens immigration spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Dutton has given Labor a free pass to work with him to trample human rights and persecute refugees and it is crucial that Labor reject his offer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The government must not let Mr Dutton write their immigration laws for them and pressure them into a draconian, knee-jerk response.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Mr. Dutton has a horrendous record of cruelty to refugees and disregarding basic human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor Labor to now work with him to rush laws through parliament this week would be disgraceful in the extreme.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIndefinite detention was found to be unlawful and unconstitutional punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany of the people recently released are refugees who have already suffered years of indefinite detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor should not allow Mr Dutton to dictate a further regime of cruelty to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor\u2019s response must be one that respects the law, respects human rights, respects refugees and respects the Australian Constitution.\u201d
\u201cWe need to reaffirm the rule of law, and that means courts deciding punishments, not politicians. Anything less is a step towards tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are hearing a lot about threats to the community but the biggest threats to the Australian people are draconian laws which seek to unnecessarily curtail liberty or detain people indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor must not let Peter Dutton dictate its response to the High Court ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unconstitutional, the Greens say. \u201cThis is a mess that Peter Dutton helped create so Labor should not let him determine its response,\u201d Greens immigration spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said. \u201cMr Dutton has given Labor a free … Continue reading “MEMO LABOR: DON\u2019T LET PETER DUTTON WRITE IMMIGRATION DETENTION LAWS AGAIN”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24042,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/24042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}