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Dominic Giannini

SHOCKING: Barbs traded over push to lock up released detainees - What They Never Told You

If new laws pass this week some the recently released detainees could be back behind bars. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

A political stoush is brewing over expanding a detention regime that keeps terrorist offenders behind bars to also cover recently released immigration detainees.

New laws would extend the preventative detention regime in place for terrorists that allows people to be detained after completing their sentence if they're deemed a risk to the community.

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