Coalition MPs were almost salivating when they entered parliament on Wednesday night as Labor rammed home its preventative detention laws.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused the government of failing to prepare for the High Court ruling and called for an apology for the release of known criminals.
Australians can see a jarring contrast between rhetoric and reality in the immigration detainee crisis after being told for weeks that the government was focused on safety.
Defence Minister Richard Marles said the Chinese navy’s unsafe use of sonar pulses against Australian divers highlighted the importance of the AUKUS pact.
The claim that the former Queensland cop voted to protect paedophiles was clearly overblown – and now all people are talking about is an apology.
The government needs extra time to reveal a new regime to lock up those with serious criminal records after the High Court ruling freed 141 from indefinite detention.
Despite being from different ALP factions,Andrew Giles and Clare O’Neil have been forced to handle the High Court’s ruling on indefinite immigration detention together.
Nine News reported some of the asylum seekers were from Pakistan and paid $US10,000 ($15,250) each for the journey from Indonesia.
The federal government is under pressure to explain how up to 12 people landed on a remote part of the West Australian coast undetected.
The parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security,however,was united in calling for the government to drop a plan to ban the public display of the Islamic State flag.
Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.