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Hundreds more immigration detainees could be released in sequel to NZYQ high court ruling

Attorney general applies to have case heard by high court to end legal uncertainty on detainees who refuse to cooperate on deportation

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Seven of the immigration detainees released in Australia were convicted of murder or attempted murder

Home affairs department also reveals 24 former detainees have been charged with visa rule breaches or state offences since their release

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Freed immigration detainee sues Australian government for damages for alleged false imprisonment

Stateless Kurdish man’s compensation case is the first sparked by high court ruling that indefinite detention is unlawful

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Immigration minister lifts ankle bracelet and curfew conditions for two ex-detainees suing Australian government

Andrew Giles eases visa restrictions for at least two of the three people challenging new rules in high court

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Fifth immigration detainee arrested after release due to high court ruling

Parliament told man arrested in connection with an outstanding warrant

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Fourth former immigration detainee charged after release due to high court ruling

45-year-old Sudanese-born man who allegedly stole luggage at airport becomes latest former detainee charged following NZYQ decision

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Labor passes preventive detention laws as judges gain power to cancel citizenship of serious offenders

Move comes as attorney general Mark Dreyfus has fiery exchange with reporter over government’s response to high court indefinite detention ruling

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New preventative detention laws pass parliament

Serious offenders recently released from immigration detention are now subject to preventative detention measures after laws passed federal parliament.

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Mark Dreyfus approved human rights commission’s intervention in indefinite detention case

Attorney general signed off on AHRC’s intervention in favour of the plaintiff NZYQ, provided it made clear it was doing so on its own behalf

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Two immigration detainees charged after release due to high court ruling

Coalition calls for Clare O’Neil and Andrew Giles to resign as fallout from NZYQ decision continues

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Is it legal to keep people who have served their time for sex offences in preventive detention?

Under proposed regime, an application could be made about a person convicted of a serious violent or sexual offence punishable by seven or more years in prison. But is it legal?

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‘Unacceptable risk’ test to determine if freed migrants go back to detention under proposed law

Labor hopes to push new laws through parliament this week to allow courts to order the re-detention of migrants or refugees freed after the landmark NZYQ high court ruling

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s new laws to re-detain migrants at risk of reoffending to be modelled on Coalition’s anti-terror orders

The draft laws allow the government to apply to a court to put migrants released after a landmark high court decision back in detention

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Peter Dutton demands immigration minister Andrew Giles resign as another person released from detention

Opposition leader’s call follows latest court order to free Iranian asylum seeker who had been detained since 2013

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Labor blames Peter Dutton’s decisions as immigration minister for ‘mess’ of indefinite detention

Opposition leader allowed a man referred to as NZYQ apply for a visa after being convicted of raping a child

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Rohingyan refugee NZYQ accidentally named in documents published by high court

Court spokesperson says plaintiff’s solicitors drew registry’s attention to ‘error’ and document has since been replaced

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Another 45 people released due to high court ruling on indefinite detention as Coalition plays hard ball on ‘patch-up’ bill

Australian Border Force alleges four people previously released have breached their visa conditions

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Coalition and Greens unite to demand Labor release legal advice on indefinite detention court case

Push comes after home affairs minister said government was advised it would win legal challenge that instead saw 93 people released

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Labor’s ‘draconian’ immigration detention conditions challenged in high court

Chinese refugee S151 has sparked the challenge, arguing his curfew and wearing of ankle bracelet is punishment

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Indefinite detention: Coalition had already released five of 93 impacted by high court decision, document reveals

Document published by high court also confirms not all 93 had convictions in Australia

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Both sides of politics knew the indefinite detention regime was on shaky ground – and now taxpayers will pay

Peter Dutton can argue that where there’s a will to detain these people there must be a way. But the court said otherwise and there’ll likely be a hefty compensation bill

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Australia’s system of indefinite immigration detention to face high court challenge

Lawyers for stateless Rohingya refugee seek to overturn 20-year-old precedent that allows those who can’t be deported to be kept in detention

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