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

This disallowance motion, which I am pleased to say has passed the Senate today, is really important. This was obviously a regulation to reintroduce temporary protection visas into the Senate through this parliament, effectively through the back door. The reason I say that is that this place debated this issue at length and resolved the issue back in December. But despite the government taking on board the will of the parliament and the will of the Senate—and they waited till everybody went on Christmas holidays—they reintroduced the regulation, despite the fact that there is a convention in this place that regulations that have been disallowed will not be reintroduced in this place within a six-month period. I think it was quite an arrogant move by this government to reintroduce regulations that had been dealt with. Temporary protection visas are cruel. They are ineffective— (Time expired)