Submission to Migration Amendment Bill 2024
The Albanese Government's brutal deportation and surveillance laws must be stopped .
The Migration Amendment Bill 2024 (Cth) (Bill) seeks to drastically expand the Federal Government’s powers to monitor, detain and deport people who are not Australian citizens, by allowing it to warehouse people in third countries, reverse protection findings made for refugees, and continue imposing punitive visa conditions on those who remain here.
Externalising Australia’s international protection obligations and warehousing people in third countries has never been, and will never be, an acceptable or effective response to political pressures. This Bill will cause serious harm that will reverberate through families and communities in Australia for years to come.
In a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, the Human Rights Law Centre recommends that the Bill not be passed.