Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate:

(a)

congratulates the nation of Palau for giving a temporary home to six Uighur men who have been held by the United States of America (US) in Guantanamo Bay prison;

(b)

recognises that the men were cleared of all charges of war crimes and that the US acknowledges they cannot be sent back to China because of the risk of persecution;

(c)

notes the strong and vibrant Uighur community in Australia; and

(d)

calls on the Australian Government to consider the resettlement of the men in Australia.

Question put.