House debates

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Questions without Notice

National Security

3:03 pm

Photo of Michael KeenanMichael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to article 32 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which states:

The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require …

I ask him again: will the minister give an undertaking to this House that a convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist will be deported?

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