{"id":7585,"date":"2020-08-05T18:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:07:55","slug":"prohibited-items-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/05\/prohibited-items-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibited Items Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020<\/em>\u00a0is irredeemable and must be rejected by the Senate, the Greens say in their Dissenting Report to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry.<br \/>\n\u201dThe amendments proposed by this Bill are punitive, disproportionate and contrary to Australia&#8217;s international human rights commitments,\u201d Greens Immigration spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis Bill would give detention centre staff greater powers with less oversight than police have when they deal with the general public.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals have shown for years that they are prepared to deliberately harm innocent people in immigration detention, and this Bill gives them yet more power to ramp up their human rights abuses.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis Bill is a deliberate attempt to silence legitimate dissent and political expression.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt is unconscionable to deny people in immigration detention proper contact with their legal advisors and support networks in the community.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is especially true in the midst of a pandemic.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Bill is irredeemable and cannot be fixed by amendment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Senate must reject this legislation.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Greens\u2019 dissenting report on the Bill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senatornickmckim.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qkdurdt-tkkyajjji-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020\u00a0is irredeemable and must be rejected by the Senate, the Greens say in their Dissenting Report to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry. \u201dThe amendments proposed by this Bill are punitive, disproportionate and contrary to Australia&#8217;s international human rights commitments,\u201d Greens Immigration spokesperson Senator &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/05\/prohibited-items-bill-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prohibited Items Bill&#8221;<\/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-7585","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\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}