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Migration legislation does not require judicial authorisation for a person to be deprived of their freedom. AAP/Dean Lewins

July 16, 2017

Australia doesn’t have a constitutional right protecting freedom of the person – it needs one

Bede Harris, Charles Sturt University

In a free society, it ought never to be lawful for a government to detain people by executive order alone.

An immigration detention centre on the island of Lesvos, Greece. Orestis Panagiotou/EPA

April 19, 2017

How immigration detention compares around the world

Admir Skodo, Lund University

Rights and living conditions vary depending where immigrants are detained.

Protests after death of a 36-year-old woman in custody at immigration detention facility in Arizona. AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File

February 7, 2017

History shows Trump will face legal challenges to detaining immigrants

Kevin Johnson, University of California, Davis

A short history of legal challenges to immigrant detention practices in the U.S. may shed light on what's to come for the new administration.

Australia has a higher proportion of inmates in privately operated prisons than any other country. AAP/Paul Miller

August 26, 2016

America is moving to end its use of private prisons – should Australia follow suit?

Marilyn McMahon, Deakin University

Recent developments in the US suggest it might be time for Australia to rethink its reliance on private prisons.

Health professionals may be sentenced to two years in jail for the unauthorised disclosure of information about conditions in detention centres. AAP/DIAC

June 9, 2015

Detention gag orders make it impossible for doctors to do their job

Louise Newman, Monash University

From July, doctors will no longer be able to fulfil their ethical and professional obligations to report mistreatment of detainees.

Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has seen hunger strikes in recent weeks. Tim Ockenden/PA

April 1, 2015

What Strangeways can teach us about immigration detention centres today

Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford

Hunger strikes have swept immigration centres in recent weeks. Is this problem being taken as seriously as it could be?

Hamid Kehazaei’s death shows asylum seekers Australia detains are excluded from the ethical principles on which medicine and our health system are based. Refugee Action Coalition

September 4, 2014

Asylum seeker’s ‘brain death’ shows failure of care and of democracy

Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney and David Isaacs, University of Sydney

The news that Hamid Kehazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus Island, has been diagnosed as brain dead following his transfer to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is a tragedy. That…

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Louise Newman
Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the Royal Women’s Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
Ian Kerridge
Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Centre for Values and Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney
David Isaacs
Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
Mary Bosworth
Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford
Marilyn McMahon
Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
Bede Harris
Senior Lecturer in Law, Charles Sturt University
Kevin Johnson
Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
Admir Skodo
Researcher in History, Lund University