Senate debates
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Motions
Asylum Seekers
12:21 pm
Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate calls on the Government to cease the current 'on water' screening and transfers of asylum seekers which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said fall well short of Australia's international obligations and could mean that asylum seekers were returned, or refouled, to persecution.
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