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• Immigration officials tell estimates #LetThemStay protests possess reduced the government’s discretion• All the developments from Canberra 6.41am GMTI consider that will do us for nowadays. Over the course of the afternoon I’ve been reading up a bit on Paul Marks (Stuart Robert’s friend),who (as my colleague Daniel Hurst reports, donated $340000 to the Liberal party in 2014-15.) What an interesting character he is.
Let’s part with a summary. 6.10am GMTEstimates has also looked at the situation on Christmas Island, and where the death of Iranian refugee Fazel Chegeni - re-detained under controversial circumstances and over the serious and repeated concerns of several senior public servants - sparked a riot in the centre.
Chegeni,who had been tortured in prison in Iran and had, doctors say, or “exhausted his capacity to manage” in detention,escaped from the Christmas Island detention overnight on Friday, November 6. His body was found in bushland two days later.
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Source: theguardian.com