The issue focused on the signing of a deal between the United States and Australia that would allow Australia to take in asylum-seekers when the Australian government imposes tighter measures at sea in response to a "human rights" complaint by Human Rights Watch that the Coalition government and its then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had pressured the human rights body to change its findings about the treatment of asylum-seekers in the Nauru detention centre on the island of Papua New Guinea. On Sunday, Australia could have officially admitted that it had acted