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The decision is a missed opportunity to move away from Australia’s practice of indefinite immigration detention.
The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.
The Government has been under sustained questioning in parliament after it was revealed the federal government has so far not applied to have any of those released from immigration detention to be re-detained.
The Albanese government has passed a new preventative detention regime in response to a recent High Court ruling – but there are several ways it may be open to challenge.
The High Court has found that consumers can be protected even if they haven’t fully read their terms and even if they were outside of Australia when they accepted them.
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?
The High Court judges unanimously held that a person must be released from immigration detention where there is no real prospect of them being deported in the foreseeable future.
The government will urgently legislate after the High Court on Tuesday outlined its reasons for its decision that indefinite immigration detention was unconstitutional.
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.
Last week, the High Court ruled the community of Santa Teresa could be compensated for the “distress and disappointment” caused by their poor housing. So how can such housing be better managed?
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?
The tiny remote community of Santa Teresa spent seven years fighting for compensation for poor public housing. Now that the High Court has ruled in their favour, what does it mean for other renters?
Support for road-user charging strengthens when people are assured that revenue goes into reducing traffic congestion, maintaining transport infrastructure, improving public transport.
Taxing electric vehicles was always a bad idea. But the High Court’s ruling against Victoria’s law could make state-based road user charges impossible.
The embattled airline may be forced to compensate almost 2000 workers as a result of the ruling.
The idea of giving aspects of nature legal rights is gaining traction – but the results are mixed.
We need a richer account of democracy within which to locate the Voice, to lift the quality of public debate about it.
The immigration minister still retains ‘god-like’ powers in visa matters, but the ruling is at least an opportunity to make the process clearer, fairer and more transparent.
Principales colaboradores
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor of Law, Member of Law as Protection Centre, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law and Social Justice, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
