More than 80,000 at risk of deportation from Australia under Labor bill likened to UK’s failed Rwanda plan

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Bill gives authority to federal government to pay third countries to accept unlawful non-citizens on a removal pathway

More than 80,000 people are susceptible to deportation from Australia to third countries paid to take them under Labor’s new bill which has been likened to the UK’s failed Rwanda deportation plan.

At a Senate inquiry hearing on Thursday, home affairs department officials confirmed that the migration amendment bill could affect far more people than those released from immigration detention by the high court but insisted it did not expand the cohort of those eligible for removal.

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An estimated 75,400 people with no valid visa in the Australian community.

4,452 people on bridging visa E, so they can make “acceptable arrangements to depart Australia”.

986 people in immigration detention.

193 in community detention.

246 on bridging visa R, released as a result of the high court’s NZYQ ruling that indefinite detention is unlawful.

A further 96 people on BVRs that predated that decision.

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Malian singer Rokia Traoré to be extradited from Italy to Belgium

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Italy’s highest court rejects musician’s appeal after she was arrested in Rome in June over child custody dispute

Malian musician Rokia Traoré, who was arrested in Rome last June over an international child custody dispute, will be handed over to Belgium in the coming days after Italy’s highest court rejected her appeal, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

Traoré, 50, a former goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, was arrested on 20 June at Rome’s Fiumicino airport under a European arrest warrant.

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Thanasi Kokkinakis and doubles pair inspire Australia to Davis Cup win over USA

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  • Doubles pair Jordan Thompson and Matt Ebden seal victory
  • Italy or Argentina await in semi-final

Inspired captaincy, a nail-biting underdog’s win for Thanasi Kokkinakis and good old-fashioned Australian doubles pedigree has powered Australia into the semi-finals of the Davis Cup in Spain.

Lleyton Hewitt outduelled his USA counterpart Bob Bryan in the key captaincy decisions of their quarter-final tie in Málaga on Thursday as Australia defeated the Americans 2-1 in the battle between the two nations who have won the men’s “World Cup of tennis” more than any other.

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Treasury Sanctions Gazprombank and Takes Additional Steps to Curtail Russia’s Use of the International Financial System – Treasury

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  1. Treasury Sanctions Gazprombank and Takes Additional Steps to Curtail Russia’s Use of the International Financial System  Treasury
  2. US Sanctions Gazprombank to Squeeze Russian Gas Exports  Bloomberg
  3. Treasury imposes sanctions on Russian banks, financial officials  The Hill
  4. The US is ramping up sanctions by targeting the last major Russian bank not yet blacklisted  Business Insider
  5. US Treasury targets Russia's Gazprombank with new sanctions  Reuters
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‘Reward for terrorism’: Israeli politicians unite to condemn ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu

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Leaders from across spectrum are outspoken in rejection of court’s ‘antisemitic’ and ‘outrageous’ decision

Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum united to condemn the decision by a three-judge panel of the international criminal court to issue arrest warrants for the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant.

Netanyahu’s office described the warrants as “an antisemitic decision … equivalent to the modern Dreyfus trial”, referring to the 1894 trial of a French artillery captain of Jewish descent that has become one of the most prominent examples of antisemitism.

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Cost of ceasefire with Hezbollah: Senior defense official lays out terms for Lebanon truce – The Jerusalem Post

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  1. Cost of ceasefire with Hezbollah: Senior defense official lays out terms for Lebanon truce  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Defense official says major chance for Lebanon truce after US envoy visits for talks  The Times of Israel
  3. Israel Strikes Near Beirut as U.S. Envoy Pushes for a Cease-Fire in Lebanon  The New York Times
  4. Israeli officials demand the right to strike Hezbollah under any cease-fire deal for Lebanon  The Associated Press
  5. Department Press Briefing – November 19, 2024  Department of State
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