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Re-detention laws for the ‘worst of the worst’ detainees pass parliament, a new scheme aims to divert children from the NDIS and a delegation of Australian politicians will visit Israel.

The issue of new laws for released detainees is set to dominate the final sitting week of federal parliame...

<strong>Letters: </strong>Claiming asylum is not itself illegal, but it is now impossible to enter the country by safe routes, writes <strong>Stephanie O’Brien.</strong> Plus letters from <strong>Louise Earnshaw-Brown,</strong> <strong>Colin Montgomery</strong> and <strong>Pat Brandwood</strong>

A freed detainee with a history domestic violence, weapons offences and assault says he is a good person being punished again by having to wear an tracker ankle bracelet and stick to curfew.

The plaintiff in the landmark case was known only as NZYQ in his latest legal proceedings but was prosecuted, convicted and jailed under his real name for raping a 10-year-old boy .

This episode hasn’t been the finest hour for what should be Australia’s reasoned and deliberative legal and legislative processes.

Judges say NZYQ immigration ruling doesn’t mean people couldn’t be locked up again ‘under a law providing for preventive detention’

The High Court found earlier this month that indefinite immigration detention unlawful, overturning a 20-year precedent and setting in motion the release of 141 detainees.

Should the court have waited until its reasons were ready in the landmark case on immigration detention?

PETALING JAYA: Convicted murderer Sirul Azhar Umar, who was released earlier this month from an immigration detention centre in Australia, has been fitted with an electronic monitoring device which allows authorities to keep tabs on his whereabouts.