‘Unacceptable risk’ test to determine if freed migrants go back to detention under proposed law
by Daniel Hurst from World news | The Guardian on (#6GVPT)
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
People freed from immigration detention will be re-detained if a court agrees they pose an unacceptably high risk of committing a serious violent or sexual offence" under proposed new Australian laws.
After a landmark high court ruling that indefinite immigration detention was unconstitutional, the Australian government will this week seek urgent passage of a proposal to allow some of the released migrants or refugees to be re-detained for up to three years at a time.
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