Recently, Australia`s immigration policy has been the focus of attention. Just now, Queensland Senator Ann (Fraser Anning) filed a referendum bill in the Senate calling for restrictions on non-European immigration and a ban on Muslim immigration. As soon as the bill was announced, it made a big difference between the Australian government and the opposition!
Contents of the draft bill
Queensland Senator Ann has just introduced an immigration bill in the Senate and called for a referendum on Australia`s immigration policy.
The contents of the Act mainly include the following three points:
- (B) substantially reduce the number of migrants;
- Reform immigration policies to support European migrants;
- Muslim immigrants are prohibited.
Senator Ann pointed out that Australia needs to conduct a referendum to allow people to decide whether large numbers of non-English speaking countries from the third World should be allowed to emigrate to Australia, and in particular whether they want Muslims to emigrate to Australia. Whether to want to return to the Whitlam consensus before the European immigration policy.
The attitude of the parties and the Government
As soon as the proposal was put forward, it was unanimously opposed by the Union Party, Labour Party and Green Party.
Ann intends to postpone the bill until November, but the Leagues, Labour and Green parties first voted down his attempt and tried to prevent the bill from being submitted to Parliament for consideration.
Green Party leader Richard Di Natale called the bill racist and xenophobic. "the sooner the bill is thrown into the garbage bin of history, the better," he said.
Senior government minister and Senate leader Mathias Cormann told the Senate that the government would strongly oppose the bill and did not want to see any progress on the bill. For years, Australia has been proud to welcome people around the world. This makes Australia a rich, powerful and beautiful country.
He believes that every immigrant who chooses Australia as his home, they work hard in Australia and contribute to Australia. Australia welcomes such immigrants very much and is proud of this inclusiveness.
Immigration, Citizenship and multiculturalism Minister David Coleman also denounced the bill as "appalling."
昆州劳工参议院 Anthony Chisholm 表示，‘种族诱饵’在澳大利亚议会中没有任何存在之处。澳大利亚是一个令人骄傲的多元文化国家，工党将继续在昆州及整个澳洲宣扬多元文化的好处。
However, Senator Ann stressed: "the purpose of my proposal is to get Australians to express their own thoughts about who is coming to Australia. I don`t understand why this can`t be done. "
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Australia is a multicultural country that has attracted people from all over the world to study, travel and emigrate with its inclusiveness. Xiao Xin thinks the bill proposed by Ann is absolutely white-minded, blatant racial discrimination and xenophobia. Such a proposal will certainly not be passed!
