Curtailing procedural rights for asylum seekers will trigger more appeals and keep people “in limbo for years”, advocates warn, as the opposition weighs a hardline plan to speed up deportations.
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s head of advocacy, Ogy Simic, implored the Coalition to heed the advice of experts “not the opinions of Pauline Hanson” as it develops an immigration policy that is designed, in part, to combat the political threat of One Nation.
