David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Minister Watt. In late March your government tried to rush through the Trumpian and anti-refugee Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024. It was still warm from the photocopier when your government was pushing to have it urgently voted through. Three months on, and this stinker of a bill has been roundly rejected, but it remains festering away on the Notice Paper. Why did you mislead the public by saying it needed to be passed in less than two days with no parliamentary oversight?