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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