Senate debates

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

2:21 pm

Photo of Sarah Hanson-YoungSarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, representing the Prime Minister. What is the government's attitude towards the comments of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate in support of Mr Morrison's call for an effective alert list of where refugees and asylum seekers live in Australia? Mr Abetz said this morning:

… I would have thought it'd be a good idea to say that somebody's moving next door to you that might not be able to have all the language skills that you might normally expect, or that they come from a traumatised background.

Are there any registers like this in Australia or other places in the world?

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