Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a further supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that, in spite of talking about mechanisms to better protect human rights since it was first elected in 2007, the government has in fact ditched the idea of a charter of human rights, has abandoned the human rights of asylum seekers in our care, including a thousand children who are in detention, and has now abandoned a consolidated antidiscrimination law in favour of something we have had for 30 years which apparently is still okay? Why would Australians trust the government on protecting human rights? (Time expired)