Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023

The majority voted against a motion to agree with the main idea of the bill - known as giving the bill a second reading - which means the bill has been rejected and will no longer be considered in parliament.

What is the bill's main idea?

According to the bill homepage, its purpose was to:

• require the minister to provide an offer of transfer to Australia to all persons in the offshore cohort in Papua New Guinea or the Republic of Nauru who have not had an adverse security assessment made against them by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; and
• provide that transferred persons will be placed in community detention while they pursue a durable solution, being resettlement in a third country which is a state party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Refugee Protocol.