The Federal Opposition has agreed to pass the Government's new encryption laws so they can be in operation over the long Christmas parliamentary break.
But Labor's proposed amendments on medical transfers to Australia for refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island will not be passed before February next year.
That was the outcome of a tortuous final sitting day of parliament for the year after Labor originally withheld its approval on encryption while trying to force equally quick action on the refugees.
In the end, the Opposition agreed to drop its amendments to the encryption bill on the condition the Government agreed to assess Labor's Nauru bill when parliament returns.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the best thing Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Coalition Government can do now is: come back to work.
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