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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Albanese government urged to end legal fight over power to deport Aboriginal people

Senator Lidia Thorpe
Lidia Thorpe has written to Labor’s Mark Dreyfus and Linda Burney asking them to withdraw a high court appeal seeking to restore Australia’s power to deport Aboriginal non-citizens. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Albanese government is under pressure to withdraw an appeal seeking to restore the commonwealth’s power to deport Aboriginal non-citizens.

The Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has written to the attorney general and Indigenous affairs minister asking them to pull the case, started by the Morrison government, which Thorpe labelled an “insult to the oldest continuing culture of the world”.

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