Home affairs mininster Tony Burke says he is confident in government’s power to deport the man and ‘will proceed with removal to Nauru as soon as possible’
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An asylum seeker slated for deportation to Nauru on Monday has had his removal postponed, after he launched a legal challenge in the high court.
But the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, told Guardian Australia he was confident in the government’s power to deport the man and “we will proceed with removal to Nauru as soon as possible”.
