Labor\u2019s panicked and craven decision to collude with Peter Dutton to jam through draconian, anti-refugee laws will be Anthony Albanese\u2019s Tampa moment, the Greens say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“These are draconian laws that provide the minister with powers never before seen in Australia and the Greens will not be supporting them,\u201d Greens Immigration Spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeter Dutton and the Murdoch media have confected an emergency and Labor has predictably collapsed under the pressure just as they did when the MV Tampa hove over the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cInstead of standing firm against Dutton\u2019s fear-mongering, Labor has collapsed and is pursuing harsh and punitive measures against refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese laws allow for visa conditions to be imposed which are detention by another name, and criminalises breaches of those conditions with a prison term of up to 5 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt creates a two-tiered justice system where some migrants, including those not convicted of a crime, will face arbitrary punishment at the stroke of a politician’s pen that cannot be imposed on citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a disgraceful collapse by Labor which undermines key principles of our liberal democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor\u2019s panicked and craven decision to collude with Peter Dutton to jam through draconian, anti-refugee laws will be Anthony Albanese\u2019s Tampa moment, the Greens say. “These are draconian laws that provide the minister with powers never before seen in Australia and the Greens will not be supporting them,\u201d Greens Immigration Spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said … Continue reading “ALBANESE’S TAMPA MOMENT”<\/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-24072","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\/24072","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=24072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24073,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072\/revisions\/24073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}