Steve Price: Australian Correspondent on the Labour Party's detention immigration bill
The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Newstalk ZB
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Show Notes
The Australian Labour Party is making an effort to clean up an immigration “mess”.
Moments before question time yesterday the party introduced a bill that would have noncitizens who have been convicted of a crime but refuse to return to their country of birth jailed for one to five years.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking that this was prompted by a case in which 150 detainees were freed from detention, many of them convicted criminals, and they’re now out in the community.
The bill was rushed through the lower house and will be debated by the Senate today before Parliament goes on a six week break.
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