Senate committee scheduled to hand down final report into murdered or missing First Nations women and children on Thursday afternoon. Follow the day’s news liveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJane Hume is asked a third time on ABC TV Breakfast if she agreed with Peter Dutton’s original comments that no Palestinians from Gaza should be coming to Australia and said:If we cannot do the security checks to ensure that those who are fleeing Gaza are not supporters of Hamas, then we have to take a temporary pause until we can be assured of that. We must do that to keep Australians safe.Our concern is the appropriate security checks simply are unable to be done right now and the evidence that we have heard in Senate Estimates was that some of the security checks took less than an hour.That is a real concern.They are doing the job that they can with the tools that they have. They can only respond to government policy. We want to make sure government policy is there to ensure that the people we are taking in from Gaza, and our humanitarian effort should be there. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-08-14 21:59:55
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