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Labor secures Coalition's support for controversial migration bills

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The parliament is set to endorse sweeping powers for the government to deport non-citizens to third countries and to ban foreigners from some nations. Critics say the policies are a hardline ‘anti-migrant' approach and have likened the laws to a White Australia policy.
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