Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor government has failed to make sure that a migration amendment was introduced six months ago when they had an opportunity. These serious offenders—murderers, rapists and child sex offenders—have been let into the community. It is totally unacceptable. The member for Goldstein said before that indefinite detention is wrong. The community would want to see people like that in indefinite detention. They do not deserve to be let out.

This government could have made tougher legislation back in June. We're now in November. Nothing was done. No amendments are able to be put forward by the coalition. What are they afraid of with tougher amendments? What is it? The community expects the coalition, a decent opposition, to put forward amendments, but the Albanese Labor government are not allowing that to be done, to the shame of the Albanese Labor government. The Australian community need to know that. They do need to know that this parliament isn't being treated with the respect it deserves. This is totally being rushed at the last minute. This could have been introduced on Monday. We're now on Thursday. Nothing had been done.

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