David Pocock blasts Labor over bid to reauthorise Nauru offshore immigration detention

Albanese government plans to push through changes with likely Coalition support despite crossbench concern

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

The two changes will likely pass with Coalition support but have sparked accusations from the opposition that Labor has mishandled national security, while the independent senator David Pocock described both as a “massive fuck-up”.

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