Labor and the Coalition have secured a deal to introduce a suite of migration bills that advocates warn are 'rushed and reckless'.
The Albanese government is planning to combine a trio of migration policies that would help it deport thousands of non-citizens, with advocates labelling the changes "brutal". The suite of measures would extend the government's powers, impose Trump-style travel bans, allow non-citizens to be deported to third countries and reverse protections for refugees.
The bill contains a safeguard stating those in detention must be given "alternative means of communication" to obtain legal advice or contact family. It's a revival of a 2020 Coalition bill voted down by Labor in the lower house and has support from the Opposition. Josephine Langbian, associate legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, described the measures as the "most brutal migrations laws that we have ever seen".
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