David Pocock blasts Labor for attempting to reauthorize Nauru offshore immigration detention

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The Albanese government will seek to reauthorize offshore immigration detention on Nauru, and to overturn a court ruling that forced it to release around 100 people from onshore custody despite character concerns.

These two changes will likely pass with Coalition support, but have sparked accusations by the opposition that Labor has mishandled the national security. Independent senator David Pocock called the Nauru issue a "massive fick-up".Tuesday saw Behrouz Boochani, a refugee and writer, visit the parliament. He called on Labor to support a Greens push for people from offshore detention to return to Australia. He also accused Peter Dutton, Liberal leader, of dehumanizing asylum seekers.

The Australian government lost a case in December where the full federal court ruled that the aggregate sentences should not trigger an automatic visa cancellation under the character provisions.

The Senate notice paper, confirmed by Guardian Australia, states that the government will present a bill to the upper house on Tuesday afternoon. This bill will restore its previous interpretation that multiple offences should be combined to result in a term of imprisonment of 12 or more months.

The government has already informed the opposition. Shadow immigration minister Dan Tehan got support from shadow cabinet to support the change, but he has stated to Guardian Australia that the Coalition will also seek amendments to "enhance the character test by providing additional grounds for visa cancellation".Tony Burke, the leader of the House, opened the day by moving for the suspension of standing orders in order to pass an instrument designating the Republic of Nauru a regional processing nation. This will be debated in both the Senate and the House after 4pm.

Burke stated that "there are real-life consequences" if we don't address these issues today in a short speech, combining the Nauru instrument with a unrelated debate on superannuation transparency.

The instrument effectively designates a country to be somewhere asylum seekers who arrived in Australia in July 2013. This must be taken while claims are evaluated. It is not clear what legal effect the five-month gap since the expiration of the previous instrument will have.

Paul Fletcher (manager of opposition business) agreed that it was urgent and accused the government of "absolutely, totally [having] dropped a ball on a matter concerning national security".Pocock had earlier told Ryan, during Boochani's address before the Parliamentary Friends of Refugees that the Nauru issue was a "massive fick-up" by the government. Guardian Australia overheard the comment.

McKim stated that the government should "stop using immigrant detention and deportation for secondary punishment", accusing Labor "of following in the footsteps Peter Dutton's hardline approach to immigration".Albanese government has been reassuring crossbench for months about its intention to implement its election policy, which will allow 19,000 refugees to remain permanently in Australia. This will grant them rights to social insurance and reunion with their families. In early 2023, the TPVs will be abolished.

Zoe Daniel, an independent MP, told Parliamentary Friends of Refugees that Labor's implementation of its immigration policies had been "bitsy" and slow and that there was no timeframe to end TPVs. Daniel told the government, "It's now." Boochani stated that it was "surreal” to be in Australia's parliament after years of watching the government and parliament fail with a "real solution for refugees and asylum seekers detained in detention. He called this a "tragedy that continues under the new government."