Labor's deportation bill is blocked in the Senate by the Coalition and Greens.

Senate rejects federal government's attempt to rush extraordinary immigration powers through parliament. Parliament received the government's bill to make deporting non-citizens easier. After passing the House of Representatives with Coalition support on Tuesday, it has stalled in the Senate for the foreseeable future.

Journalists have been questioning Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil since Labor's proposed legislation pertaining to immigration detainees was defeated in a vote. The Albanese government was looking for support for amendments that would subject detainees who refuse to cooperate with authorities to a minimum sentence of one year. As per the legislation, the government will be vested with additional powers to prohibit foreign nationals from submitting visa applications if their home country declines to grant them. On Wednesday, the Senate's Coalition and Greens joined forces to postpone the bill that would have sent the emergency powers to a parliamentary investigation.

In the Senate, the Coalition voted with the Greens and the crossbench to block the bill, sending it to a Senate legal committee that will report by May 7.

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