Kaldor Centre statement on new migration bill
Kaldor Centre scholars express concerns with proposals rushed through parliament today.
Published on the 26 March 2024 by Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
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The Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law has serious concerns about the scope and ramifications of the , which was rushed into Parliament today. It gives the Minister extraordinarily broad and ill-defined powers which would make a person’s failure to cooperate with the government’s efforts to remove them a criminal offence; expand the Minister’s powers to reverse protection findings; and see entire countries subject to travel bans, prohibiting their citizens from coming to Aust