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The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, will be asked to fund a senior lawyer for an asylum seeker whose court case could lead to the release of more than 100 others detained under medical evacuation laws. The full bench of the federal court on Friday ordered that lawyers for Dutton seek the minister’s approval to fund counsel for the Iranian asylum seeker known as DXT20. Justice John Griffiths said because the case could impact about 100 other...

An Iranian man detained in Australia for 18 months after being transferred for medical treatment will return to court on Friday in another case that could clear a legal pathway for about 130 refugees to be released into the community. The man, who can only be referred to as DXT20, alleges that he has been detained unlawfully as he has not received medical treatment since he was flown from Papua New Guinea under the now-repealed medevac laws....

Share on Twitter A secretive ordeal stretched over the better part of a decade was, for about 60 refugees and asylum seekers, over without warning in a matter of days.  Across seven years the group had been detained in squalid offshore camps housed on remote islands, locked-up inside detention centres on the mainland, and, finally, shut inside inner-city hotels.  The ordeal ended when the Australian government did something many thought it would never do: releasing the group, who came to the Australian mainland under the now-repealed Medevac legislation, into the community on si...

More than 20 refugees who were medically transferred to Australia from Nauru or Papua New Guinea have been released from their Melbourne hotel detention centre.

Share on Twitter Farhad Bandesh is now a free man, but up until last week the 39-year-old was detained with about 60 others at the Mantra Hotel in Melbourne. "Can you imagine, for 20 months they’re stuck in this hotel? They are suffering," he tells SBS News.  "And they spend six years in offshore detention centres. They need to be with us.” Mr Bandesh - a Kurdish asylum seeker and musician - fled Iran in 2013. After arriving on Christmas Island he was detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. He came to Australia last year with about 200 other refugees under the now-repea...