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

At the request of Senator Rice, I 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 standalone 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 Minister for Foreign Affairs, by no later than 2 pm on 11 August 2021, a government response to the report of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.