A Queensland Liberal senator is urging a rethink from all sides of politics,saying the proposed legislation would have “real-world consequences” for vulnerable people.
Party sources say Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale questioned the impact of provisions blocking visas from countries who don’t accept the return of their citizens.
The government intends to mount a fresh defence in the High Court against asylum seekers who refuse to co-operate with Australian authorities.
Robert Taylor was facing deportation to the UK under strict immigration laws despite living in Australia his whole life. His fight to be released back to his family was eventually successful.
The new detention laws pushed through parliament before Christmas have been branded unacceptable by a committee chaired by a Labor MP.
“No one is directly responsible or accountable for the time a child spends in a watch house nor the impact this has on their wellbeing,” principal commissioner behind review says.
Australia’s immigration detention centres are not jails,but a new investigation suggests they resemble a tragic and tawdry prison drama.
Understaffing and violence are the latest problems revealed in immigration detention centres,with a UN expert now calling for an investigation into the privately run system.
Authorities admit illicit drugs have infiltrated the detention centre network,and that some guards are turning a blind eye to detainees growing marijuana in their rooms.
The only reason the detainees were in immigration detention was because they did not have a visa – not because they were serving a sentence.
Seven of the 32 detainees released in WA this week were known sex offenders who had reportable conditions placed on them upon their release.