High court decision: Indefinite detention chaos not Canberra's finest hour
This episode hasn’t been the finest hour for what should be Australia’s reasoned and deliberative legal and legislative processes.
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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.