Bill Shorten says it would have ‘helped’ if high court released reasons for indefinite detention ruling earlier

High court demolished indefinite detention system and within one month the Albanese government's resolved it', Labor minister says

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Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten said it would have been helpful" if the high court had given its reasons for ruling indefinite detention was unconstitutional at the same time it handed down its decision.

The Albanese government has spent the last month weathering criticism it was too slow to react to the high court's decision, which overturned a 20-year precedent allowing the government to indefinitely detain refugees and migrants it could not deport.

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