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The Morrison government is pushing to secure the right to deport Aboriginal people.

The Morrison government is pushing to secure the right to deport Aboriginal people, while concerns grow over plans to use secret evidence to cancel visas.The federal government is seeking to overturn a 2020 high court ruling that deemed Aboriginal Australians cannot be deported, regardless of whether they are citizens.

Two of the judges that supported the 4-3 majority ruling have since retired, with the Morrison government hoping the new appointees will see the matter differently.The Commonwealth has asked that part of a federal court case be removed to the High Court to make the challenge.

The case involves Shayne Paul Montgomery’s bid to extend the category of “non-citizen, non-alien” to people customarily adopted as Aboriginal, even if they have no Aboriginal biological descent.The Morrison government will also challenge this aspect, arguing that Montgomery fails the three-part test for Aboriginality despite being recognised by Mununjali elders as such. The Morrison government will also challenge this aspect, arguing that Montgomery fails the three-part test for Aboriginality despite being recognised by Mununjali elders as such.It comes as concerns grow over proposed legislation allowing people to be deported without knowing the evidence behind the decision.

The laws aim to prevent the disclosure of confidential information provided by police for use in decisions to refuse or cancel visas on character grounds.The Australian Human Rights Commission warned that the proposal runs counter to legal principles “that the state should not be permitted to rely on secret evidence in cases where a person’s liberty is at stake”.

For more daily news from Schwartz Media, sign up to Post. It’s a free newsletter, delivered every morning. Link in bio.Image description: Detainees arriving at Christmas Island detention centre, which holds people whose visas have been cancelled and are awaiting deportation.

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15 relevant petitions closing at midnight on Wed 27 October

(Remember that it is best to confirm each one before signing the next one).

Petitions EN3285 and EN3375 already have tens of thousands of signatures:

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3233

  • Freedom of choice – Covid Vaccine

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3239

  • Adopt Rapid Antigen Testing

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3241

  • NO Vaccine Passport / National ID card

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3266

  • End lockdowns, covid 19 principalities & campaigns, open borders

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3277

  • Terminate the Covid19 Biosecurity Emergency

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3285

  • Reject Biosecurity Amendment Bill 2021

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3292

  • Reject the Doherty Institute report

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3310

  • NO COVID-19 Health Pass!

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3313

  • Freedom of Vaccine Choice in Australia

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3315

  • No vaccination passports or anything similar Australia wide.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3350

  • Stop Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccinations and Passports in Australia

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3352

  • No to vaccine passports

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3375

  • AHPRA edict silencing health practitioners

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3381

  • AHPRA TO ALLOW HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO GIVE UNCENSORED MEDICAL ADVICE

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3364

  • The Ivermectin Ban – an authoritarian threat to Public Health

Digital Identity

Every single Australian pls start writing, jumping up and down about, actioning like never before.
If this rubbish passes I think we can kiss our freedoms goodbye forever 

😱

 we cannot let it pass!

https://www.digitalidentity.gov.au/have-your-say/phase-3

VICTORIANS…

Emergency Powers Safeguards Legislation
Amendment Bill 2021

Victorian’s …

The State of Emergency is due to expire on 21st October. If the SOE expires, all COVID measures will end,
including vaccine mandates, masks, the ban on protesting etc, etc, etc. Everything ends.

In order to enforce the vaccine mandate and the rest of the covid nonsense, Andrews will have to reconvene parliament and ask parliament for an extension sometime in the next two weeks.

Any extension to the SOE requires support from 3 of the 10 crossbenchers. Andrews struggled to get the numbers last time and only managed to do so with the reluctant support of Fiona Patten at the last minute.

It is worth noting that Fiona Patten has gone on the record as saying that she does not believe that Covid should be managed under a never ending SOE and that she would be unlikely to extend the SOE again.

A reason the media is being quiet about the SOE ending, is to not alert us to start organising any campaign against the SOE being extended.

Below are the email addresses of the Victorian MP cross benchers.
If contacting all of them is to much please just contact Fiona Patten.
We probably have two weeks to organise opposition to the SOE being extended.
If writing is not your thing, call their office and voice your concerns.

fiona.patten@parliament.vic.gov.au

rod.barton@parliament.vic.gov.au

jeff.bourman@parliament.vic.gov.au

Tim.Quilty@parliament.vic.gov.au

Tania.Maxwell@parliament.vic.gov.au

David.Limbrick@parliament.vic.gov.au

clifford.hayes@parliament.vic.gov.au

Catherine.Cumming@parliament.vic.gov.au

Stuart.grimley@parliament.vic.gov.au

Andy.Meddick@parliament.vic.gov.au

adem.somyurek@parliament.vic.gov.au

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