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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Deportation bill breaches Labor’s national platform, ALP pro-refugee group says

Minister for immigration Andrew Giles at a press conference at Parliament House
Immigration minister Andrew Giles introduced the deportation bill to parliament last month. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

A Labor pro-refugee group has accused the Albanese government’s controversial deportation bill of breaching the ALP national platform and amounting to “huge overreach”.

Labor for Refugees New South Wales and ACT has revealed it opposes passage of the bill in a submission to the Senate inquiry forced by the Coalition and Greens, upping pressure on the government to moderate its harshest provisions.

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