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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer bringing you the best of the overnight stories as we wrap up another busy sitting week, while Emily Wind will be along soon to take charge.

More than 80,000 people could be deported from Australia to third countries paid to take them under Labor’s new bill likened to the UK’s failed Rwanda deportation plan. A Senate inquiry hearing yesterday heard home affairs department officials confirm the migration amendment bill could affect far more people than those released from immigration detention by the high court. But it will not expand the cohort of those eligible for removal, they said.

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