Bill
Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023
lapsed, as at 2023-03-08.
- Sponsor
- Nick McKim
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-02-07
- second reading — 2023-02-07
- second reading — 2023-03-08
- second reading — 2023-03-08
Divisions
- Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea — 2023-03-08, Senate: negative, ayes 12, noes 24
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-02-07.
This bill would require the Australian government to invite everyone held under offshore processing in Papua New Guinea or Nauru who has not been given a negative security assessment by ASIO to come to Australia.
People who accept the invitation would be placed in community detention and stay in Australia until a durable solution is found in a country that is party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol.
The government would have to make these offers within one month after the bill starts, and anyone who receives an offer may turn it down.
- Compels the government to offer transfer to Australia to eligible offshore processing detainees.
- Requires offers to be made within one month of the bill's commencement.
- Places all accepting persons into community detention.
People subject to offshore processing in Papua New Guinea or Nauru who do not have an adverse ASIO security assessment.
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