National Security

The majority voted against a motion introduced by Qld Senator Pauline Hanson (One Nation), which means it failed.

Motion text

That the Senate—

(a) acknowledges that ASIO and Australian Federal Police have extensive data on the country-of-origin of potential extremists;

(b) notes that, in other issues in relation to the immigration system, when rorts and problems are identified from certain countries, the tap is turned off; and

(c) calls on the Federal Government to introduce a travel ban, similar to that imposed by the Trump administration in the United States of America, on people from countries that are known sources of radicalism coming into Australia.