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The date has passed on an international commitment made by the federal government to embed the principles of OPCAT.

Immigration minister Alex Hawke says the Tamil-Australian family will be reunited in Perth for an unspecified amount of time.

Federal Court judge Justice Geoffrey Flick handed down the judgement on Monday, finding that the asylum seeker should have been released from detention in mid-2019, ‘at the very latest’.

The Australian Border Force has taken to social media to defend its decision to reopen the detention centre on Christmas Island after a number of media outlets reported that refugees and asylum seekers would be moved to the facility.

The Department of Home Affairs failed to demonstrate value for money for procurements of garrison support and welfare services for an offshore detention centre in Papua New Guinea, according to the Australian National Audit Office.

Workplace health and safety was a big theme of the latest Senate inquiry into offshore detention. The committee criticised the complex administrative arrangements that have left Comcare out in the cold, and called for a WHS Act review to make it clear where the regulator stands.

Michael Pezzullo clumsily defended Immigration staff against accusations asylum seeker detention resembles Nazi camps . But the psychiatrist who first made the claim is standing by his assessment.

A former Immigration Department communications manager says the secretary had a “foot in mouth” moment in referencing “alleged” Nazi crimes while defending detention centre operations.

The boss of Australia’s most contentious Commonwealth agency, Immigration and Border Protection, has made a rare public statement defending his department and staff against accusations of cruelty and illegal acts.

Leadership in the new Department of Immigration and Border Protection — same name; new flavour — requires diverse experience rather than long service, its secretary says. Those who’ve given decades to the old Immigration and Customs are less useful.