David Pocock blasts Albanese government as it reauthorises Nauru offshore immigration detention

Independent senator David Pocock told Monique Ryan the Nauru issue constituted a ‘massive fuck-up’ on the part of the government. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Albanese government has reauthorised offshore immigration detention on Nauru and sought to overturn a court decision that forced it to release about 100 people from onshore detention despite character concerns.

The Nauru authorisation passed parliament on Tuesday with Coalition support despite accusations that Labor had mishandled national security, while the independent senator David Pocock labelled it a “massive fuck-up”.