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| Offshore detention laws rushed through Senate to avoid high court – politics live | Offshore detention laws rushed through Senate to avoid high court – politics live |
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| 8.54am AEST23:54 | |
| Shalailah Medhora | |
| Liberal backbencher Craig Laundy, whose western Sydney seats takes in many of hotspots shown in the map said he is aware of the problem of radicalisation. | |
| This is a known issue. We know where these areas are... and this should be called for what it is, a beat up. | |
| Updated at 8.55am AEST | |
| 8.41am AEST23:41 | |
| Shalailah Medhora | |
| From Shalailah, the report from the cross-party committee on indigenous recognition. A story that was strangely tagged as exclusive by two outlets this morning. | |
| A clause mentioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be inserted into Australia’s founding document and another that discriminates on the basis of race removed, a parliamentary report will recommend. | |
| The cross-party parliamentary committee examining different models for a future referendum on constitutional reform will hand down its report on Thursday morning. It will be tabled by Australia’s first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives, Ken Wyatt. | |
| Guardian Australia understands the committee was unanimous in pushing for the the inclusion of a new clause recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution. | |
| 8.36am AEST23:36 | |
| Shadow defence spokesman David Feeney has questioned the prime minister’s instincts on national security. | |
| How can it be that the prime minister who tells us day after day that he is at the heart of a very serious security conversation and tells us that’s a security conversation that involves each and every one of our interests, can suddenly be in a meeting being appraised of sensitive material and not recognise it for the sensitive material that it is. How can his own instincts, which he tells us are very finely honed, not ring with alarm bells when he is being briefed on material that is secret in full view of our cameras. | |
| 8.12am AEST23:12 | 8.12am AEST23:12 |
| Good morning, | Good morning, |
| A glorious pink Canberra sunrise heralds in the last sitting day before the winter break. On the breakfast smorgasbord today: | A glorious pink Canberra sunrise heralds in the last sitting day before the winter break. On the breakfast smorgasbord today: |
| In delivering the Magna Carta lecture last night, the prime minister justified the broad ambit of his legislation to strip dual nationals of Australian citizenship. He lamented how difficult it was to get evidence to put terrorists in jail, which is: | In delivering the Magna Carta lecture last night, the prime minister justified the broad ambit of his legislation to strip dual nationals of Australian citizenship. He lamented how difficult it was to get evidence to put terrorists in jail, which is: |
| easier said than done, despite new laws making it an offence merely to be present in designated terrorist-controlled areas...We can’t readily put informers on the witness stand or always make available intelligence without risk to sources and it wouldn’t usually be possible, nor desirable, in such cases to bring witnesses from the Middle East to testify. | easier said than done, despite new laws making it an offence merely to be present in designated terrorist-controlled areas...We can’t readily put informers on the witness stand or always make available intelligence without risk to sources and it wouldn’t usually be possible, nor desirable, in such cases to bring witnesses from the Middle East to testify. |
| On the standard rules of evidence, without a confession, securing a conviction is hardly straightforward, let alone for crimes committed offshore in ungoverned space. Bringing foreign fighters back to face trial in Australia risks leaving them free on our streets rather than in our jails. That’s why the government has introduced legislation to strip citizenship from terrorists who are dual nationals. | On the standard rules of evidence, without a confession, securing a conviction is hardly straightforward, let alone for crimes committed offshore in ungoverned space. Bringing foreign fighters back to face trial in Australia risks leaving them free on our streets rather than in our jails. That’s why the government has introduced legislation to strip citizenship from terrorists who are dual nationals. |
| Daniel Hurst has the full story here. | Daniel Hurst has the full story here. |
| The peculiar thing about the national security debate is the confusing nature of the government’s narrative. On the one hand, Australians hear the prime minister speaking about death cults, evil and barbarous forces, coming for all of us. We must be both alert AND alarmed. (Gone are the John Howard fridge magnets.) On the other hand, the overnight story that terrorism recruitment hotspot maps were revealed for a prime ministerial photo op at Asio headquarters suggests there is a theatrical nature to this national security debate which makes the message feel disingenuous. It comes after the news last month that the attorney general’s office did not hear alarm bells at the letter from Man Haron Monis, the Martin Place murderer. Monis asked if he was allowed to contact Isis for a chat. The letter, (admittedly one of the thousands his office would receive every month), was not picked up, in spite of the Australia’s heightened terrorist alert. I’m confused. | The peculiar thing about the national security debate is the confusing nature of the government’s narrative. On the one hand, Australians hear the prime minister speaking about death cults, evil and barbarous forces, coming for all of us. We must be both alert AND alarmed. (Gone are the John Howard fridge magnets.) On the other hand, the overnight story that terrorism recruitment hotspot maps were revealed for a prime ministerial photo op at Asio headquarters suggests there is a theatrical nature to this national security debate which makes the message feel disingenuous. It comes after the news last month that the attorney general’s office did not hear alarm bells at the letter from Man Haron Monis, the Martin Place murderer. Monis asked if he was allowed to contact Isis for a chat. The letter, (admittedly one of the thousands his office would receive every month), was not picked up, in spite of the Australia’s heightened terrorist alert. I’m confused. |
| The senate has a job ahead today. The migration amendment bill, which passed the lower house yesterday, will go to the senate today. This is the bill that the government rushed through once they worked out that the Human Rights Law Centre had a real prospect with their challenge in the high court. The HRLC was challenging the government’s very right to fund offshore detention, going back to Labor’s time. This embarrassing hole in the legal walls of fortress Australia needs to be plugged before the pollies head back to their electorates. Labor answered the government’s call but asked for an I.O.U. Remember this day, Bill Shorten said. The government has told the senate, no one leaves until its fixed but Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has promised to amend the bill to enforce some humanising elements. However she does not have the numbers, given the majors are joined at the hip so we can expect a few more gags before the end of the day. | The senate has a job ahead today. The migration amendment bill, which passed the lower house yesterday, will go to the senate today. This is the bill that the government rushed through once they worked out that the Human Rights Law Centre had a real prospect with their challenge in the high court. The HRLC was challenging the government’s very right to fund offshore detention, going back to Labor’s time. This embarrassing hole in the legal walls of fortress Australia needs to be plugged before the pollies head back to their electorates. Labor answered the government’s call but asked for an I.O.U. Remember this day, Bill Shorten said. The government has told the senate, no one leaves until its fixed but Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has promised to amend the bill to enforce some humanising elements. However she does not have the numbers, given the majors are joined at the hip so we can expect a few more gags before the end of the day. |
| I will end there before this post turns into war and peace. We have a whole lot more analysis of the citizenship legislation and I will get to the Indigenous recognition debate next. In the meantime, better publish and be damned. Talk to us below and on the Twits @gabriellechan and @mpbowers. | I will end there before this post turns into war and peace. We have a whole lot more analysis of the citizenship legislation and I will get to the Indigenous recognition debate next. In the meantime, better publish and be damned. Talk to us below and on the Twits @gabriellechan and @mpbowers. |