Labor\u2019s attempts to amend last week\u2019s rushed and shoddy anti-refugee legislation with more rushed and shoddy anti-refugee legislation is just further proof that Peter Dutton is running the show, the Greens say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor has clearly learned nothing from last week. They let Dutton pressure them into trampling refugee rights with hasty and xenophobic legislation, and here they go again,\u201d Greens Immigration and Citizenship spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey may as well re-appoint Peter Dutton as Minister for Home Affairs and be done with it.\u201d
\u201cThis isn’t leadership; it’s a betrayal of principles in the face of political pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey have completely folded in the face of a right wing scare campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAgain we see one group of people in our country treated more harshly than another just because they are not citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMandatory sentences are contrary to good governance and Labor\u2019s own policy platform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor Labor to introduce them today just shows that they are only interested in appeasing the far right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor\u2019s xenophobia is perpetuating a cycle of criminalisation and punitive control over refugees and migrants, many of whom have committed no crime whatsoever.\u201d
\u201cTo the Teals, Mr Wilkie and Senator Pocock: we ask you to this time stand with us for refugee rights instead of collapsing again in the face of the political duopoly\u2019s confected fear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor\u2019s attempts to amend last week\u2019s rushed and shoddy anti-refugee legislation with more rushed and shoddy anti-refugee legislation is just further proof that Peter Dutton is running the show, the Greens say. \u201cLabor has clearly learned nothing from last week. They let Dutton pressure them into trampling refugee rights with hasty and xenophobic legislation, and … Continue reading “DUTTON\u2019S BACKSEAT DRIVING CONTINUES”<\/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-24261","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\/24261","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=24261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24262,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261\/revisions\/24262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}