Coalition boasts it’s ‘running the immigration system’ after deal to pass all three of Labor’s migration bills

James Paterson and Dan Tehan called on the Albanese government to be ‘transparent’ about which countries might be paid to receive non-citizens from Australia. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Coalition has struck a deal to pass all three of the Albanese government’s controversial migration bills, in return for minor safeguards on new powers to ban travellers from whole countries and tougher scrutiny of protection visa applications.

On Wednesday the shadow home affairs and immigration ministers, James Paterson and Dan Tehan, announced the deal with Tehan boasting that the Coalition are now “basically running the immigration system for the government because they have failed … to do it themselves”.