Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   notes:

     (i)   the recent decision by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, that found the decision by the former Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone, to deport Mr Stefan Nystrom to Sweden in 2006, was in breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

     (ii)   that Mr Nystrom speaks no Swedish and had no knowledge of any relatives there, and

     (iii)   that as a result of his treatment, Mr Nystrom is now an inmate in a psychiatric institution; and

  (b)   calls on the Government to immediately respond to the UN decision that found Australia had acted unlawfully in deporting Mr Nystrom.

Question put.

The Senate divided. [15:43]

(The President—Senator Hogg)

Question negatived.