"Offshore processing bill is Tampa law mark II: unjust and bad"

Professor George Williams writes about the offshore processing law that may finally be voted on this week in The Sydney Morning Herald (11 October, 2011).

Please see summary below:

Parliament may finally vote this week on the federal government's bill to restore offshore processing. Questions about whether the bill will pass and what defeat might mean for the government have overshadowed what it would actually do, and whether it amounts to a sensible change.

The Migration Act says that asylum seekers, without having their claim first determined in Australia, can be removed to any country declared by the immigration minister to have, among other things, ''effective procedures for assessing their need for protection''.

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