Second Reading Speeches

Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023

Type
Private
Sponsor(s)
MCKIM, Sen Nick
Originating house
Senate
Status
Not Proceeding
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the

Migration Act 1958
to: require the minister to provide an offer of transfer to Australia to all persons in the offshore cohort in Papua New Guinea or the Republic of Nauru who have not had an adverse security assessment made against them by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; and provide that transferred persons will be placed in community detention while they pursue a durable solution, being resettlement in a third country which is a state party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Refugee Protocol.

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