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

The Greens will not be supporting this motion because we do not support the playbook being adopted by the opposition here, which is to weaponise the High Court's decision on NZYQ. We have seen this happen time after time in this place: migrants, people seeking asylum, refugees, and migration and multiculturalism more broadly are weaponised by the opposition. They are credulously and enthusiastically reported by far too much of the media in this country, and then Labor goes to water and fails to stand up against that weaponisation. That is how we end up with thousands of lives being destroyed in offshore detention, people being murdered and raped, and children subjected to child abuse and, in some cases, child sex abuse. The Greens are not going to have a bar of that race to the bottom.