I wish to present a petition on behalf of 16,300 concerned members of the public, registering protest at the Government's proposals to restrict the rights of asylum seekers—the proposed abolition of legal aid for asylum seekers, the extension of the restriction on airline carriers, and the suggestion that asylum seekers be fingerprinted in a discriminatory fashion. The petition ends:

Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House do not proceed with these unjust proposals. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.