Senate debates

Friday, 25 November 2011

Bills

Deterring People Smuggling Bill 2011; In Committee

3:27 pm

Photo of Bob BrownBob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Let me be direct. I asked the minister whether this law and this interpretation that is now being presented to the Senate—which did not exist before that—has retrospective application to existing cases before the Australian courts.

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