âWhat are you going to do? Have passport police set up between Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast? I mean, for goodness sake,â he said on Monday morning.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan were both concerned such a plan would in effect create two classes of citizens.
âI think itâs unconstitutional,â Senator Hanson told Sky News.
Crossbench senator Rex Patrick said it was a distraction from issues with the rollout.
âOnce weâve got enough people who have signed on to get the vaccine, I think all these issues of passports go away,â he told Sky News.
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A multinational company that secured a $121 million contract to support asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea boosted its profits by billing the Australian government $75 an hour for local workers it paid just $8.
One former local worker described the practice as âlike stealingâ from PNG nationals and the Australian taxpayer.
Refugees on Nauru in 2018.
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Company records show that Spanish-owned Applus Wokman, which in 2017 won the contract to provide case management and resettlement support for hundreds of asylum seekers, paid local workers as little as 10 per cent of the wages it claimed from the Department of Home Affairs.
The revelation, along with the huge profits made by Brisbane-based company Canstruct for running Nauruâs asylum-seeker processing centre, raise fresh questions about the cost and accountability of Australiaâs outsourcing of offshore processing to private companies.
Meet Justin Hemmes, the billionaire Sydney âplayboyâ coming for Victoriaâs pubs
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Many men may consider themselves the King of Sydney, but few warrant the title as much as Justin Hemmes.
His Merivale hospitality empire has romped through the NSW capital like nothing before, opening pub after pub, restaurant after restaurant - and in some cases entire precincts. If youâve danced at the Ivy, eaten at Mr Wong or partied at Coogee Pavilion, youâve been to a Hemmes venue.
Justin Hemmes at Bar Topa in the Ivy complex.