The Coalition’s assistant multicultural spokesman Paul Scarr says parliamentarians need to inject greater empathy into the debate over Labor’s controversial deportation bill and consider the futures of young working people who face mandatory jail terms if it is passed.
The Queensland Liberal senator said the proposed legislation had “real-world consequences” for traumatised and vulnerable people in multicultural communities, and passionately urged decision-makers from all sides of politics to register the distress being caused.
Why this Coalition senator is calling for empathy in the immigration debate. By Angus Thompson, SMH