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"The Albanese government will immediately begin releasing people from
indefinite detention after receiving a flurry of demands from long-term
detainees to be set free due to Wednesday’s landmark high court ruling.
On Thursday the director of Human Rights for All, Alison Battisson, said the
government was wrong to claim it needed to wait for the full reasons for the
court’s decision, and could be liable to pay compensation for failing to
immediately release people who it is not possible to deport.
The government now concedes that for some detainees it is clear they must be
released because it is not possible to deport them.
On Friday the immigration minister, Andrew Giles, said “the plaintiff has been
released – as ordered by the high court”. “Other impacted individuals will be
released and any visas granted to those individuals will be subject to
appropriate conditions.
“We are considering the implications of the judgment carefully and will
continue to work with authorities to ensure community safety is upheld.”
On Wednesday at least a majority of the high court ruled that indefinite
immigration detention is unlawful when there was “no real prospect of removal
from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
