Coalition and Greens unite to demand Labor release legal advice on indefinite detention court case

Push comes after home affairs minister said government was advised it would win legal challenge that instead saw 93 people released

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The Coalition and the Greens have demanded that the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, release the government’s legal advice on indefinite detention, with the opposition claiming she may have already revealed its contents publicly.

The push from James Paterson and Nick McKim to see legal advice the minister claimed showed the government was “likely” to win a high court challenge comes as new conditions on those released as a result of the decision face their first legal test.

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