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Labor drops Coalition bid to overturn high court ruling that Indigenous Australians can’t be aliens
Decision by attorney general Mark Dreyfus guarantees a dozen Aboriginal non-citizens at risk of deportation will be able to stay in Australia
The Albanese government has abandoned a controversial high court case that sought to restore the commonwealth’s power to deport Aboriginal non-citizens.
- Paul Karp
- The Guardian
The decision by the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, guarantees that a dozen Aboriginal non-citizens at risk of deportation will be able to stay in Australia, and ends the former Coalition government’s attempt to overturn the landmark precedent of Love and Thoms.
In February 2020, the high court ruled that Aboriginal people cannot be aliens, putting them beyond the…