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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’m going to bring you up to speed with our top stories before today’s regular blogger, Jordyn Beazley, takes the controls.
Our top story today is another twist in the immigration detention story with our reporter Paul Karp discovering that the immigration minister, Andrew Giles, has quietly lifted the ankle bracelet and curfew conditions from at least two of the three people released from detention who are challenging tough new visa rules in the high court. Guardian Australia understands that Giles has exempted a Chinese asylum seeker known as S151 and an Afghan refugee known as AUK15 from the conditions.
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