A key plank of the federal government’s foreign fighter laws has been struck down by the High Court, with the nation’s top judges ruling that suspected terrorists cannot be stripped of their citizenship by the Home Affairs Minister.
The main issue in the case was whether the law allowing the Home Affairs Minister to strip him of his citizenship was valid under the Constitution.
The High Court has ruled that stripping a citizen of his/her citizenship when they have not faced a court was so serious that it was only something that could be decided by a judge not a Minister of the Crown.
The other news was that The Tamil asylum seeker family at the centre of a decade-long immigration battle have arrived in Brisbane after beginning their journey back to their adopted hometown of Biloela.
The Nadesalingam family this morning flew out of Western Australia and on Friday they will make their way to the rural Queensland town, where they will live in the community on bridging visas while their immigration case is resolved in court.
In 2018 they were sent to Christmas Island to be deported despite support from the people of Biloela