Senate debates

Thursday, 18 June 2020

Petitions

COVID-19: Asylum Seekers

4:42 pm

Photo of Nick McKimNick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I advise the chamber that this document has been through the whips process and I table the document in the form of a nonconforming petition signed by 19,288 people calling for the release of refugees and people seeking asylum from alternative places of detention due to risks of transmission of COVID-19 and the pre-existing health conditions that many of them suffer from.

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