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MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (COMPLEMENTARY PROTECTION VISAS) BILL 2006 [2008]

  Explanatory Memorandum - Migration Legislation Amendment
           (Complementary Protection Visas) Bill 2006

                                Senator Bartlett

This Bill seeks to introduce a system of Complementary Protection into the Migration
Act to provide an alternative system of protection for those who do not meet the
definition of a refugee under the Refugee Convention, but who have compelling
humanitarian reasons why they cannot return to their country of origin.