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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: Labor votes with Coalition against asylum seeker bill; Musk mocks disabled employee; and full-fat milk’s comeback

Protesters from the Refugee Action Collective March through
The Evacuation to Safety bill was defeated in the Senate by 24 votes to 12, with the Greens, David Pocock and Lidia Thorpe in favour and the Coalition, Labor and One Nation opposed. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Labor has joined the Coalition and One Nation in voting down a bill that would have seen asylum seekers held offshore brought to Australia as they await resettlement in third countries.

The evacuation to safety bill, introduced in the Senate by the Greens, was defeated 24 to 12, with the Greens, David Pocock and Lidia Thorpe voting in favour.

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