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Coalition to back Hanson’s migration policy despite pledging to fight One Nation

Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan to support bill barring overseas Australians with terrorist links from returning home

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The Coalition will back a plan by Pauline Hanson to prevent Australian citizens with links to overseas terrorist groups from returning home, significantly elevating One Nation’s policy prescriptions on matters of national security.

Despite pledging to fight Hanson’s insurgent rightwing movement amid collapsing support for their own parties, the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, and Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, both signalled support for One Nation’s bill to bar the return of foreign fighters ahead of its introduction to the Senate on Wednesday.

Coalition backs Hanson on foreign fighters despite Howard’s plea to counter One Nation

The Coalition will work with One Nation on a legally questionable attempt to ban Australian citizens linked to overseas terrorist groups from returning, as Labor sledges the parties’ co-operation on a bill they say is constitutionally unviable.

The partnership comes after a failed attempt from the Coalition to legislate similar handbrakes on returning citizens earlier this year, with opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson arguing a Senate inquiry into the matter was necessary to determine the legality of such moves.

“We’ve said consistently we’re happy to work with anyone who wants to protect Australia from the serious national security threat posed by these returning radicalised people, and we consistently said we’d support the introduction of bills and the referral of bills to committees,” Paterson said on Wednesday.

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