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Dominic Giannini

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Concern that new measures targeting detainees overreach - Caught on Camera

Sarah Hanson-Young says courts not politicians should be making decisions on detention. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

The Albanese government and federal opposition are facing a backlash over a lightning-quick parliamentary response to a High Court ruling on long-term detainees.

More than 90 people being held in immigration detention have so far been released after the High Court ruled keeping them in indefinite detention was illegal. 

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