The government will head back to the High Court next month for another immigration case. If it loses, there could be wide-ranging consequences.
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The release of more than 140 ex-detainees from immigration detention has prompted a panicked government response. So, what does the legislation say, and what happens now?
New preventative detention legislation will be brought into the Senate as an amendment. The changes will allow the preventative detention of those who are considered a terrorist risk.
This week, the High Court made an order which overturns the laws on which much of Australia’s immigration system is based. What happens to the law, and those most affected by it, now?
The overturning of almost 20 years of legal precedent allowing indefinite detention is a watershed moment. But stateless people in Australia have few rights and little say over their futures.
Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika yesterday won the right to remain an Australian citizen. So will he go free? And what does this mean for national security?
US immigration policies have not deterred migration, but they have made the process longer and more difficult for migrants.
Ghana needs a more effective approach to juvenile justice reform that considers the long-term impact of detention on youth offenders.
UK law says that detention should only be used when deportation is imminent.
The re-introduction of an immigration detention bill could bring Australia into compliance with international human rights law.
The perpetrator of Friday’s terror attack in Auckland spent time in prison for sharing objectionable ISIS material, but under New Zealand’s criminal law he couldn’t be detained for planning an attack.
Three-year-old Tharunicaa Murugappan’s hospitalisation has once again raised the plight of her family, who have been detained since 2018.
Deportations of non-citizens living in Australia not only tear families apart, they ignore the fact a person has already paid for their crime.
Denying protection to asylum seekers is neither sustainable nor defensible as long-term policy. Here are ways to make the screening process at airports more just when the borders do reopen.
The government claims the bill is needed to make detention centres safer. But it would strip away a vital lifeline for people already 200 times more likely to self-harm than the Australian community.
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been detained in Iran since 2018. Her transfer to a notoriously brutal prison this week has pushed a fellow researcher to speak out.
The use of hotels as alternative sites for detention is a worrying trend, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iran is being accused of ‘hostage diplomacy’ by resorting to incarcerating foreign nationals at a time when sanctions are crippling its economy.
There are growing calls for the Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun to be freed after six months of detention and interrogation in China.
The Wikileaks founder has been removed from the Ecuadorean embassy after nearly seven years.
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Dean of Law, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of Kent
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Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, University of South Australia
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Sessional Lecturer and PhD Candidate, Monash University
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania; Visiting Fellow, Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW, University of Tasmania
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Tony Walker é um amigo do The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
