Government rushing through bill to crack down on ‘uncooperative’ non-citizens it is trying to remove
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government is seeking to rush legislation through parliament to crack down on non-citizens who refuse to cooperate with attempts to remove them.
The bill, introduced by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles just after noon on Tuesday, also allows a minister to designate a country as a “removal concern country” when it won’t...