Labor’s deportation bill will only create an endless roundabout between immigration detention and prison | Sanmati Verma and Laura John

There is still time for the government to change course and to finally give people an opportunity to rebuild their lives

In the five months since the high court delivered its landmark ruling in NZYQ, the Albanese government has introduced a patchwork of hasty and ill-considered laws that aim to skirt around an inescapable reality: that it is unlawful for governments to punish people.

Through increasingly elaborate means, the Albanese government has attempted to coerce, restrict and malign people released from immigration detention so that as many as possible accept removal from Australia.

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