Greens’ David Shoebridge calls amendment ‘one of the nastiest, meanest attacks’ on multicultural Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Refugee and human rights groups will launch a campaign demanding the federal government scrap a controversial migration amendment to explicitly remove procedural fairness in deportation decisions for foreign-born criminals, a proposal which advocates say is causing alarm among migrants. The Senate on Thursday rejected a Greens push for an inquiry into the legislation, which the senator David Shoebridge slammed as “one of the nastiest, meanest attacks” on multicultural Australia. Continue reading...