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Coalition sends Labor’s secretive Nauru deportation deal to senate inquiry
The Coalition has decided to send Labor’s deal with Nauru concerning the deportation of NZYQ-linked criminal non-citizens to a senate inquiry. It comes after the Albanese government agreed to pay Nauru $408 million to relocate about 200 criminal...
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Albanese government sets unchanged 185,000 intake under permanent migration program
The government will keep the permanent migration level for 2025-26 at 185,000, the same level as the previous financial year. Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced the figure amid a fresh divisive debate about immigration, intensified by the...
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Coalition sends Albanese government’s Nauru legislation to a Senate inquiry
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell has revealed that the Coalition has decided to send the Nauru NZYQ legislation to a Senate inquiry. “This will delay deportations of those criminals – the government will no doubt jump on that,” he said.
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Australia’s ‘secret’ deportation deal with Nauru – Full Story podcast
On Friday, the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, released a six-line statement announcing a new deal struck with Nauru. The deal allows the government to deport about 280 members of the NZYQ cohort, a group of noncitizens living in Australia...
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Tonga prepares to host the Pacific Resilience Facility
As the Pacific Islands Forum are geared up to prepare for the signing of the Pacific Resilience Facility Treaty at the upcoming 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tonga’s Prime Minister and Chair of the Pacific...
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Katter distances himself from neo-Nazi-linked megaphone; FoI transparency backlash; and ‘cosmic’ algae in Melbourne
Good afternoon. The federal MP Bob Katter has distanced himself from a neo-Nazi group that claimed ownership of a megaphone he used briefly at a Townsville rally against mass immigration, with the veteran politician claiming he has been the victim...
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Live: Coalition says plan for information access charges a 'transparency tax'
1m agoTue 2 Sep 2025 at 3:35am Crackdown on AI deep-fake pornography apps a 'line in sand' Anika Wells. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)Communications Minister Anika Wells has described a planned crackdown on apps that use generative AI to create deepfake...
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Albanese defends $400m Nauru deportation deal amid criticism
Australian PM Albanese insists there’s "nothing secret" about Australia’s $400m Nauru deportation deal as critics raise human rights and transparency concerns. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended a $400m Nauru deportation deal,...
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Australia to Pay Island Nation of Nauru to Resettle Foreign-Born Criminals
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Australia will pay the small Pacific island of Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who the courts have ruled cannot be imprisoned indefinitely, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday. Nauru has...
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Australia will pay Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia will pay the small Pacific island of Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who the courts… MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia will pay the small Pacific island of Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals...
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Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal
Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. Priding these moves as noble and humanitarian, cruelty born of kindness, these have entailed...
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Prime minister insists $408m deportation deal with Nauru not a 'secret'
The prime minister has insisted a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars struck by his home affairs minister during an unannounced trip to Nauru was "hardly a secret", while refusing to say what the total cost would be. Australia has agreed to...
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Albanese won’t say how long Nauru will collect $70m a year to rehome deportees
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to say if the government will indefinitely pay $70 million a year to the Nauruan government in exchange for the long-term harbouring of former immigration detainees who cannot be deported to their home...
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‘Sad mindset’ – Michael slams Labor’s ‘shameful’ Nauru deportation deal
Michael McLaren says the government has made a “shameful” and “despicable” deal to deport hundreds of non-citizens to Nauru. McLaren argues that by paying Nauru a lump sum of $408 million to resettle “undesirable” non-citizens, Labor has fulfilled...
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By sending non-visa holders to Nauru, Australia is shifting its responsibilities
The Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, revealed late last week he had visited Nauru in August and signed a memorandum of understanding with its government. Under the agreement, Nauru will grant long-term visas to members of a group known as the...
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Anti-migrant rallies show need for anti-racist unity
Thousands of racists joined anti-immigration marches across the country on Sunday. It was a sobering reminder of the urgent need to organise in defence of migrants, refugees and Indigenous people. There were some 6000 on the racist rallies in...
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Irrelevance marks Canberra and our national government
‘Never was so much done for so little apparent result,’ aptly describes Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles’ recent lightning visit to Washington. It was a visit shrouded in mystery. Was there a meeting or merely a photo opportunity with...
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Israel announces official visit to South Pacific
The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced last month an official “goodwill” visit to the South Pacific. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sharren Haskel will lead a delegation for discussions aimed at “deepening and advancing Israel-Pacific...
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The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream
Many are painting March for Australia as an event dominated by far-right “extremists”, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and the like. While in a sense this is true, the problem with this framing is that it exceptionalises the events we have seen...
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The U.S. wants to mine the ocean floor. Can anyone stop them?
On the dark, pressurized floor of our planet’s oceans, life is going on as usual – though we still have a lot to learn about what that looks like. Two kilometers beneath the sea surface, underwater vents thrum with astonishing biodiversity,...
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