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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Eleventh-hour high court bid to stop Australia’s secretive deal to resettle NZYQ cohort in Nauru

The Micronesian nation of Nauru as seen from the air
A week ago, home affairs minister Tony Burke said Australia had struck a deal with Nauru to remove three men to the Pacific nation. Photograph: Ben Mckay/AAP

Australia’s secretive deal to deport people among the NZYQ cohort to Nauru has been challenged in the high court in a move that could block the first removal from the country.

Legal proceedings filed Friday for a man scheduled to be deported to Nauru on Monday argued that the decision to cancel the man’s protection visa was unlawful and that he should be allowed to stay in Australia while a review of his visa continued.

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