The document will be submitted for discussion in Parliament next week.
Australia unveiled a bill that, if adopted, will allow for life to ban entry to migrants illegally arriving by boat.
If the document is adopted, those caught in the future migrants will not be allowed in the country either on a tourist or business visa, or even in the case of marriage with an Australian citizen.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that “the bill sends the smuggling of people, the strongest signal possible”.
The document will be submitted for discussion in Parliament next week.
Now all the migrants trying to reach Australia by boat, once delivered to the refugee centres in Nauru or in Papua New Guinea.
Under existing legislation, even if migrants manage to prove that they are refugees, they are still forbidden to settle in Australia. They can stay and live on the Islands of Nauru and Manus, or go to some third country.
The bill will mean that more tightening by Australia of its migration policy.
If the document is adopted, it will apply to all who were sent to Manus and Nauru since July 19, 2013, including those who were eventually sent home, and those who will arrive to the shores of Australia in the future. An exception will be made only for children.
“It’s a battle between the will of the people of Australia, which represents the government, and criminal gangs involved in human smuggling,” said Turnbull.
“Don’t underestimate the scale of the threat. The smugglers transporting people is the most terrible violators of the law, which only can imagine. They have a multimillion-dollar business. We hardcoded to say “no” to their criminal plans,” the Prime Minister added.
If the bill is passed, it will affect the fate of about 3 million migrants in detention centres on Nauru and Manus or sent to Australia for treatment.
The labour party of Australia in opposition to the government, stated that it has not yet decided whether she should support the bill.
Human rights activists have consistently criticized Australia for tough migration policy. Earlier in October, Amnesty International called the immigration camp in Nauru prisons under the open sky. The Australian government called the Amnesty report “absolutely untrue”.
