Outspoken Labor MP Melissa Parke has launched a blistering attack on her party's support for the government's offshore detention regime.
Ms Parke on Thursday criticised the $1 billion being spent annually to "torture" asylum seekers, blasting the regime as a "grotesque, faux caring deterrence exercise".
There was no constructive reason why people were indefinitely locked up and why the "Pacific gulags" were allowed to continue operating.
"What demonstrates the hollowness of this sadly bipartisan approach is the lack of any concern about what happens to people who have been turned back," the West Australian MP told parliament.
Ms Parke will next week make another attempt to change the opposition's asylum-seeker policy, calling for an end to indefinite detention.
With former Speaker Anna Burke, she's put a motion on the notice paper to be debated at next Tuesday's caucus meeting.
A similar motion proposed last year was rejected by their colleagues.
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