What we learned today, Monday 6 October
That’s all for today. Thanks for joining. Here’s the day’s main news stories:
Australia and Papua New Guinea have signed a landmark defence treaty.
The Victorian director of public prosecutions has confirmed it will appeal against the sentence handed down to triple murderer Erin Patterson.
The former prime minister Scott Morrison says Donald Trump should win a Nobel peace prize if he ends the war in Gaza under his 20-point peace plan.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says he will make a statement in parliament on Tuesday to commemorate the second anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.
The man who allegedly opened fire on a street in Sydney’s inner west last night has been discharged from hospital into police custody and is expected to be charged later today, NSW police say.
State Library station – the final of five stations to make up Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel – has been completed, marking the end of construction on the long-awaited project.
Thousands of flood victims who applied for a NSW government buyback scheme have had their personal information put into AI program ChatGPT in a data breach.
The alert for the Moreton Island fire has been downgraded to “advice” level after fire crews worked over the weekend to contain the blaze.
The Brisbane Broncos have doubled their market value over the 2025 NRL season, after a $50m boost in the wake of their grand final victory.
An Australian has won an award at this year’s Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship.
We’ll see you again for more news tomorrow.
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Labor-led committee warns fast-tracking Nauru deportations could breach human rights obligations
The Albanese government does not have a “legitimate objective” in denying fair hearings to those set to be deported to Nauru and could place Australia in breach of international human rights obligations, a Labor-chaired parliamentary committee has found.
The joint human rights committee’s scrutiny of the law said the changes would “likely exacerbate the underlying human rights concerns” with the regime to offload more than 350 NZYQ-affected noncitizens to Nauru as part of a $2.5bn deal.
The law, which passed in early September, amended the Migration Act to remove natural justice – access to a fair hearing and to a decision without bias – for noncitizens on a removal pathway. It also validates government visa decisions made before the high court’s NZYQ ruling in November 2023 that could subsequently have been deemed unlawful.
Read more about the committee’s report here:
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