Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Kitching, move:

(1) That the Senate—

(a) notes that on 8 December 2020 the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade tabled its report titled Criminality, corruption and impunity: Should Australia join the Global Magnitsky movement?, and recommended that the 'Australian Government enact stand alone targeted sanctions legislation to address human rights violations and corruption, similar to the United States' Magnitsky Act 2012'; and

(b) calls on the Australian Government to respond to that report's recommendations as soon as possible, and introduce an Australian Magnitsky Act.

(2) That there be laid on the table by the Foreign Minister, by no later than 2 pm on 13 May 2021, a response to the report of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.

Question agreed to.