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

The Greens will not be supporting this motion. To say that the Senate has some particularly important matters to consider today would be absolutely understating the importance of the business that we all know is before the Senate today. With regard to what is actually happening here, let's be very clear about one thing: a race to the bottom on refugee policy—a race to the bottom on immigration detention policy—in Australia is something that we have seen time after time after time in this country over the last 25-odd years, since the Tampa arrived and that was politicised so utterly disgracefully by—