‘Indefensible’: alleged child abuse survivor takes on Albanese government over $2.5bn Nauru deal

Key points

• The Albanese government’s $2.5bn deal with Nauru, under which hundreds of non-citizens will be sent to the tiny Pacific island, will face another legal challenge prompted by an alleged child abuse survivor.
• Legal representatives for Abdul*, a Hazara man who was re-detained in immigration detention earlier this month, have launched a bid to prevent the 29-year-old’s imminent deportation to Nauru by challenging its compatibility with Australia’s constitution.
• Alison Battisson, Abdul’s lawyer, said his case was “extraordinary and deeply troubling”, owing to claims he was groomed and sexually abused by a carer as a minor after settling in Australia.
• The new legal challenge, which was filed in federal court on Tuesday, comes just weeks after the high court dismissed an appeal by an Iranian man, known as TCXM, to stop authorities from exiling him to Nauru for 30 years.
• The man in his 60s has since been removed to the Pacific...