Second Reading Speeches

Migration Amendment (Detention Reform and Procedural Fairness) Bill 2010

Type
Private
Sponsor(s)
HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
Originating house
Senate
Status
Not Proceeding
Parliament no
43

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Summary

Amends the:

Migration Act 1958
to: establish asylum seeker principles; facilitate judicial review of detention decisions; repeal excised offshore places and indefinite detention provisions; and restore asylum seekers rights to fair process and procedural fairness; and
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
to repeal the privative clause decision within the
Migration Act 1958
.

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