Labor and the Coalition are closing in on a deal to pass a trio of controversial migration bills. What is in them?

Government accused of enabling a form of ‘human trafficking’ by the campaign group Labor for Refugees NSW

The Albanese government has a trio of migration bills before parliament to facilitate the removal of non-citizens from Australia, including paying third countries to take them and creating powers to confiscate mobile phones in detention.

Labor has been accused of trying to out-flank the former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, and even of enabling a form of “human trafficking” by the campaign group Labor for Refugees NSW.

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