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The amendments abolish secrecy rules preventing workers speaking out about mistreatment in Australian immigration detention centres. #auspol

Labor senator Kim Carr and Greens senator Nick McKim confirm their parties will support the bill's passage, so it'll sail through. #auspol

McKim: the section being scrapped from the bill has had a chilling effect on transparency, disclosures and political freedoms. #auspol

McKim: this section was designed to draw a veil of secrecy over the horrors of Australia's offshore and onshore detention centres. #auspol

"It prevented many people from speaking out about what they witnessed, including many who had a professional or moral obligation to do so."

"It'll come out eventually, that terrible truth, and then finally some of the wounds can begin to heal," @NickMcKim tells Senate. #auspol

Labor senator Lisa Singh is up next, arguing the government has been dragged kicking and screaming into scrapping its secrecy laws. #auspol

Liberal senator Michaelia Cash is the final speaker on the bill, which she says clarifies the original intent of the legislation. #auspol

Senator Cash says the bill aims to prevent unauthorised disclosure of information which could harm the national or public interest. #auspol

Cash: the bill strikes balance between open, accountable government and the need to protect potentially harmful information from disclosure.

The Greens have tried, unsuccessfully, to narrow the scope of what'll be considered protected information under the ABF bill. #auspol