Australia’s deportation deal with Nauru to cost $2.5b
Australian taxpayers will be a leech of $ 2.5 billion for 30 years to deport hundreds of former migratory prisoners to Nauru under a “secret” agreement.
The Albanian government signed a memorandum with Nauru and offered more than $ 400 million every year and later $ 70 million.
The agreement will allow Australia to be transferred to 354 former prisoners, including convicted criminals, to the Small Pacific Island with a population of approximately 12,000.
The immigration officials were grilled in a parliamentary investigation late at night on Wednesday and reluctantly confirmed the great cost of the agreement.
If Nauru decides that he will not accept more people within the scope of the agreement, Australia may stop paying a $ 70 million annually.
Under the questioning of Green Senator David Shoebridge, the authorities also confirmed that the Labor’s legislation may be retrospectively.
During the hearing, he challenged the authorities who claimed that the agreement was not “hidden” because he was not open to anyone.
The proposal to force Senator Shoebridge’s Labor Party to release the full memorandum by the Senate order was voted in the upper house.
Anthony Arbanese repeatedly pressure on the lack of public details.
“We have regulations between governments and these regulations are the regulations we have entered on the board of directors,” he said.
At the beginning of this week, the Prime Minister refused to give more details about the agreement during a TV interview and said, “Nothing is hidden about it.”
Prime Minister’s rejection came After the Supreme Court was dismissed The appeal of an Iraqi man with a temporary protection visa was canceled after being sentenced to almost six years in prison for being sentenced and detained a person for advantage.
The temporary protection visa was canceled in March 2023 and the immigrant was detained after being released from prison a year later.
He was released in October 2024 as an illegal part of the Supreme Court decision, without immigration, without immigration.
Since the group was not a predictable way to remove it, it was released as part of the Nzyq cohort.
The worker was greatly criticized by the Serpinti opposition.
After applying to Nauru for Visa on behalf of Australia, the 65 -year -old was detained in February, that is, there was a real possibility that it would be removed from Australia.
The man is one of the three people in which non -citizens are deported to Nauru under the laws that allow them to be sent to a third country if they cannot deport their country.
His lawyers said that the Supreme Court decision on Wednesday would not determine a wide precedent for deportation.
Laura John, Human Rights Law Center Assistant Director, said that the man lived with the Iraq War with the “Unplanned Horrns ve and that he had an uncertain separation from his wife and child in Australia.
“Like every human being, our client has the right to live in security and dignity,” he said after the decision.
“At every stage of this process, the government refused to take into account the lifelong consequences of an elderly man to Nauru.”
The protection visa is canceled after the court’s decision, but there are other legal ways to fight the man’s deportation to Nauru, and this attempt will continue in the Federal Court.
The labor force pushes the legislation through parliament to restrict procedural justice requirements to facilitate the deportation of Nzyq cohort to Nauru.
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