Senate debates
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Questions without Notice
Asylum Seekers
2:32 pm
John Madigan (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi said during her visit to Australia in November 2013 that the rule of law 'must be tempered by mercy' in cases of asylum seeker children born in Australia. Will the government commit to ensuring that the babies of asylum seekers who are born on Australian soil are given the legal right to apply for protection and citizenship and are not deported to offshore detention centres?
Andrew JACKSON
Posted on 6 Dec 2014 10:18 am
Good to see an ex-DLP Senator reverting to DLP position on Refugees. Remember that both ALP and Liberals were hostile to Vietnamese Refugees and ALP was to a great extent hostile to Post World War 11 refugees.
DLP was ion fact the first party in Australia to advocate the end to the White Australia Policy when ALP still advocated "Australia for the White Man"
Andrew Jackson
apjackson@hotkey.net.au