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Australia lacks ‘legitimate objective’ in fast-tracking Nauru deportations, Labor-led committee finds

Parliamentary committee warns international human rights obligations could be breached under new regime

The Guardian - AU

People banished to Nauru by Australia face hostile reception as $2.5bn cost of deal revealed

Home affairs department reveals just-signed transfer deal, worth $408m upfront to Nauru, forecast to cost Australia $2.5bn over 30 years

The Guardian - AU

Australia's deportation deal with Nauru to cost $2.5b

Australia's deal with Nauru to deport ex-immigration detainees will cost taxpayers up to $2.5 billion over three decades, a parliamentary committee was told.

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Up to 80,000 people in Australia may be affected by ‘sledgehammer’ powers to deport noncitizens to Nauru, lawyers warn

Greens senator David Shoebridge accuses Tony Burke of ‘doing his Peter Dutton impression, dog-whistling and punching down on migrants’

The Guardian - AU

‘Nothing secret’ about the $400m Nauru deportation plan, says Anthony Albanese

Amid backbench and opposition criticism, the prime minister says non-citizens do not have a ‘legitimate’ reason to stay in Australia

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Albanese government resorts to whatever-it-takes to rid Australia of former detainees

The Albanese government’s deal with Nauru to take up to 280 former immigration detainees again shows both sides of politics will resort to drastic and expensive actions when faced with intractable issues around illegal non-citizens.

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Australia signs $400m deportation deal with Nauru

Australia will pay Nauru hundreds of millions of dollars to accept non-citizens who don't have a valid visa as part of a new deal to deport them.

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Australia signs $400m deportation deal with Nauru

Australia will pay Nauru hundreds of millions of dollars to accept non-citizens who don't have a valid visa as part of a new deal to deport them.

AAP

Australian government criticised over ‘disgraceful’ $400m deal to deport foreign-born former detainees to Nauru

An agreement relating to the NZYQ cohort, who previously faced indefinite immigration detention, was signed by home affairs minister Tony Burke on Friday

The Guardian - AU

Asylum seekers lose illegal detention bid in High Court

Two asylum seekers have lost their bid to broaden the scope of an incendiary High Court ruling that led to the release of 150 immigration detainees.

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Asylum seeker slated for deportation to Nauru has removal postponed due to legal challenge

Home affairs minister Tony Burke says he is confident in government’s power to deport the man and ‘will proceed with removal to Nauru as soon as possible’

The Guardian - AU

Eleventh-hour high court bid to stop Australia’s secretive deal to resettle NZYQ cohort in Nauru

Proceedings filed Friday for man scheduled to be deported Monday as Human Rights Law Centre makes case for ‘dangerous precedent’

The Guardian - AU

‘Served their time’: Nauru president backs Australian plan to resettle three members of NZYQ cohort

David Adeang defends his government’s offer for 30-year resettlement visas to non-citizens in Pacific island nation

The Guardian - AU

Australia is deporting 3 non-citizens from the ‘NZYQ’ group to Nauru. What could it do instead?

Australia’s minister for home affairs announced on Sunday that the federal government has struck a deal with Nauru to “resettle” three non-citizens from what’s come to be known as the “NZYQ cohort”.

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The Guardian - AU

Albanese says RBA rate cut ‘won’t have an impact’ on timing of federal election – as it happened

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Convicted murderer among three members of NZYQ cohort to be resettled in Nauru under deal struck by Labor

Three non-citizens with criminal histories taken into immigration detention in preparation for removal from Australia, home affairs minister says

AAP

Australia to boot violent offenders in Nauru visa deal

A convicted murderer is one of three released immigration detainees the federal government will pay Nauru to take off Australia's hands as part of a visa deal.

The Guardian - AU

Australia operates ‘immigration prisons’, human rights lawyer tells UN

In closed hearing, Alison Battisson says country has a ‘terrifying’ record of detaining people unlawfully for indefinite periods

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The Guardian - AU

Detained while we decide: Australian government fights for power to detain protection visa applicants

Two non-citizens want landmark NZYQ decision extended to people who remain in detention while their visa applications are processed

The Guardian - AU

‘We don’t want them in Australia at all’: Labor wants more powers to re-detain and remove non-citizens to third countries

Tony Burke introduces bill to facilitate removal of unlawful non-citizens and regulations to reimpose ankle bracelets and curfews on those released after high court’s NZYQ decision

The Guardian - AU

Andrew Giles released murderer into community detention before NZYQ high court ruling, documents show

Attempted murderer also among the 25 people released before judgment that indefinite immigration detention was unlawful

The Guardian - AU

Non-citizen Andrew Giles wanted to be ‘rid of’ cannot be deported, court rules

Exclusive: Safwat Abdel-Hady may now be able to pursue damages for false imprisonment after court found his detention was not authorised by Migration Act

The Guardian - AU

Murderer and attempted murderer among 25 detainees released by ministerial discretion, documents reveal

Exclusive: Legal challenge discloses number of non-citizens already released by ministerial discretion higher than first thought

The Guardian - AU

Two murderers and 26 sex offenders released under NZYQ ruling not electronically monitored

ABF commissioner tells Senate there is a ‘big difference between some murders and other murders’

The Guardian - AU

Win for Albanese government as high court rules indefinite detention legal in non-cooperation cases

High court dismisses challenge from Iranian asylum seeker, ruling that detention is lawful if non-citizens refuse to cooperate in deportation process

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